Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank A. Clark
Don't pay any attention to the critics-don't even ignore them.
Samuel Goldwyn
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader
John Dryden
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Samuel Johnson
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances
Joseph Addison
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author
Benjamin Disraeli
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Harold Bloom
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Henry Louis Mencken
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense
Samuel Johnson
The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under
Gerald Moor
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender