• I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
  Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes
• There are so many people that have encouraged and assisted my skiing through the years. They know who they are and I hope they know how grateful I am to them. No single individual has been as supportive and instrumental as my wife. Dawn has been my biggest critic (everyone knows how sharp she keeps here pencil) and yet she has managed to coach "the uncoachable". On or off the water she has been my greatest asset. One last thought would be that "the family that foots together stays together".
  Will Ferrell Quotes
• . . I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment but it was. It was a fine Compliment.
  Jackson Pollock Quotes