Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
—Andy Warhol
CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
—Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil’s Dictionary
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
—Djuna Barnes, “The Songs of Synge : The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays”