"Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that ."

"I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism."

"People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American."

"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well."

"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."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"Think people get scared that they’re not going to be able to do it perfectly - they’re going to be criticized - they’re going to be like, “Well, I’m not totally green.” Well, you know what? At this point we don’t care... Just a shade of green is enough right now. Move a little bit closer towards this. Because the more people start moving closer and closer to it, that’s something that collectively makes a difference."

"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."

"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world."

I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Don't get me started on critics.

“Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.”

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” 

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.