"We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public."
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"Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult."
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"No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind."
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"One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."
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"Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration."
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"If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now."
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"When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen."
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"To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability."
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"Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising."
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"Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms."
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"Time is the only critic."
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"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."
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"It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own."
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"There is no such thing as constructive criticism."
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"Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work."
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"After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."
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"Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static."
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"People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?"
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"If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism."
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"Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road."
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