If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.