This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and…

I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to…

— Matt Tyrnauer

I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a…

— Manny Farber

“At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous…

— Vladimir Odoevsky

All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the…

— Chuck Klosterman

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

— Frank Sinatra

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like…

— Edouard Manet

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

— Robert Redford

“Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.”

— Marchel Reich-Ranicki

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

— Jeff Bezos

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but…

— Philip Kitcher

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must…

— H. L. Mencken

Critics are the fool who discuss the wise

— Leo Tolstoy