Frederic Chopin
Composer
"Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers."
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Critics
307 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dave Willis
Comedian
"Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already."
Frank Sinatra
Singer, Actor
"Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
Leonard Bernstein
Composer, Conductor
"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic."
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"Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!"
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"I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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"I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics."
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"Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history."
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"All art critics are useless or harmful."
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
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"In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic."
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"Time is the only critic."
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"I criticise by creation, not by finding fault."
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"I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose."
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"There are no statues erected to critics."
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"Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown."
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"I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics."
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"Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued."
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"A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak."
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"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't."
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"I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman."
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"Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries."
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"Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market."
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"I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one."
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