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• Artists should pay little attention to their critics.
  * Criticism tends to undermine and constrain the artist's creativity....
• Imaginative works such as novels, plays, films, fairy tales, and legends present a more accurate and meaningful picture of human experience than do factual accounts.
  Because the creators of fiction shape and focus reality rather than report on it literally, their creations have a more lasting significance....
• A critic is a person who knows the way but can't drive the car.
• Forger: a person who gives a check a bad name.
• An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed: (Constable)
• SOCIETY SWINGER -- a person who sleeps with just everyone, but not just anyone.
• A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him what he meant.
  -- Wilson Mizne...
• CRITIC: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsma
  but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist....