Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Never criticize your spouse's faults; if it weren't for them, your mate might have found someone better than you

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.