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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

Benjamin Franklin

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

John Updike

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

We had to shut up all our critics.

Willie Reid

We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well we run these ski resorts.

Adam Aron

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

Jimmy Page

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.

Gioacchino Rossini

PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.

Ambrose Bierce

We never discussed any matters having to do with any of the things that have been alleged by his critics. There was no wrongdoing.

John Podesta

The show has built momentum with our subscribers and with the critics.

Carolyn Strauss

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

Jean Sibelius

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

Jean Sibelius

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Frank Richard Stockton

A few critics said, 'I want to write on such and such,' .

Jay Carr

I proved the critics wrong. And now we have the gold.

Herb Pope

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

He never replied to critics in the media; he only replied with his bat.

Rashid Latif

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Fred Solomon

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Jackie Collins

Anything that the industry does that is positive, our critics consider a ploy, and anything the industry does that they don't agree with is considered obstruction.

Scott Williams

We didn't listen to critics, ... We did things with the fans and we did it our way. . . . That's what I'd like to be remembered by.

Mick Mars

They are largely cosmetic in nature. They're an attempt to satisfy critics who want broader change.

Artemus Ward

All critics should be assassinated.

Man Ray

It is a piercing film. And that's the Critic's Corner for this morning.

Gene Shalit

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Arthur Rimbaud

The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

The critics have been harsh all the way through my career but it doesn't affect me.

Guy Ritchie

I think the critics are a lot right. And I think they are a little wrong.

Tom Foreman

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Spike Lee

The downside is that critics get their records for free.

Patterson Hood

It seems sure to backfire if the intention was to silence their critics.

Jeff Ferrell

I've had critics. But I love critics. I use them to my advantage. I laugh at them because no one knows my heart.

Sammie Henson

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

Nat King Cole

Why do (critics) think two are enough in South Carolina?

Porter Bankhead

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

Edward Albee

Some television critics don't like us anymore, ... Well, maybe you don't, but our peers do!

Eric Mccormack