Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
There is a certain justice in criticism.
Worship the spirit of criticism.
Most art is just surface noise.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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