Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that's…

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

— Gene Ween

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a…

— Billy Connolly

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

— John Updike

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

— John Legend

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate…

— Burton Rascoe

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

— George Herbert

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

— Edward Abbey

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come.…

— Woody Allen

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

— Francois Truffaut

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics…

— Oscar Handlin

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

— Shia LaBeouf