I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue…

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

— Jean Sibelius

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

— Jean Sibelius

Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic

— Werner Erhard

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

— Jean Sibelius

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get…

— Seth Godin

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

— Jean Sibelius

A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That is so…

— James Salter

An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

— Peter Greenaway

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

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

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee

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