I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.
I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
We're not trying to entertain the critics. . . I'll take my chances with the public.
I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my form of entering into a dialogue with ideas that are already out there, and calibrating how much sense these make to me or not. I want to be responsible to the work that has already been done.
I was never a critic.
A leader must not let critics set the agenda.