William Shakespeare on Criticism
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
W. Somerset Maugham on Criticism
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Charles Horton Cooley on Criticism
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Zeuxis on Criticism
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
W. Somerset Maugham on Criticism
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. H. Auden on Criticism
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Kurt Vonnegut on Criticism
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Jean Sibelius on Criticism
Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.
Henry Fielding on Criticism
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Harold Rosenberg on Criticism
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.