Assured Quote by 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. 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

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

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile…

— Anna Brackett

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by…

— Ai Weiwei

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

— George Jean Nathan

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their…

— Brad Bird

“No critic ever added value to the world.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured.…

— Tom Stoppard