Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

About Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius (; Finland Swedish: [ˈʃɑːn siˈbeːliʉs] ; born Johan Christian Julius Sibelius; 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped...

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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

—Henry Fielding

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

—Harold Rosenberg

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

—H. L. Mencken

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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

—Franklin P. Jones

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!