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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.