“Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.”
“If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.”
“It's okay to offer criticism if your intention is to be helpful. But if you only criticize when there is an audience to applaud and snicker...For shame!!”
“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.”
“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”