I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway…

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Jean Sibelius

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

— Jean Sibelius

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

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

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

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

— John Updike

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

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

— John Legend

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm…

— Miles Davis

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

— Werner Erhard