Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic. Because they're people that can't get the job done. But the future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

The only way to deal with critics is to go over their heads direct to the public.