I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism…

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true…

— Helen Vendler

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that…

— Djuna Barnes

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do…

— Rosanna Arquette

I take constructive criticism really well.

— Jordan Fisher

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned…

— Oscar Wilde

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life…

— Troy Glaus

I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art…

— Lucy R. Lippard

You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.

— Elijah

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

— Dennis Haysbert

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

— Samantha Akkineni

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

— Lando Norris