Critics Quote by Harold Rosenberg

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

— Sylvia Plath

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

— Anonymous

All art critics are useless or harmful.

— Umberto Boccioni

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

— Ezra Pound

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

— Jeff Bezos

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham

“Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.”

— Jack Green

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

— H. L. Mencken

Critics build nothing.

— Robert Moses

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

— E. M. Forster

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke