There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.

— Howard Jacobson

When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a…

— Billy Williams

“14. ‘This statue was erected in memory of Emile Razan, the Hadoka, Aralmerian freedom fighter and healer of the desert.”

— Robert Reid

“perhaps a special wing at the Museum of Crazy should be erected in my honor.”

— John Green

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

— Jean Sibelius

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

— Leonard Bernstein

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