I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
Rupert Murdoch

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
Howard Hodgkin

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.
James Caan

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.
K. Eric Drexler

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Elia Kazan

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
Jim Dine

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
Mariah Carey

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
Jascha Heifetz

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
Graham Nash

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

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Malcolm X

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
Alex Cox

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
John Yoo

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
Joe Pantoliano

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.
Godfrey Reggio

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Harold Bloom

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
Alice Walker

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Jack Levine