“The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There are always going to be critics. But I have got to go out there and do my job. — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Critics and criticism are part of the game and I've not been affected by it. — Gervinho Copy Share Image
Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though.… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“Yes! If you really love your beautiful garden of dreams, you will never allow any hungry beast to have its way in.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Critics are eager to discover a new voice. For some reason they're just as eager to be disappointed by a second novel.” — Olivia Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is… — Donald Keough Copy Share Image
At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason. — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
