1. The so-called friendship, first of all, is sincerity and criticism of comrades’ mistakes. ——Ostrovsky
2. A good critic is one who dares to look among the masterpieces——France
3. When all kinds of arts are becoming more and more perfect, At the same time, the art of criticism was developing at the same rate. ——Burke
4. Friendship is established in comradeship, consolidated in sincerity, developed in criticism, and destroyed in flattery. ——Lenin
5. Just like language is to critics and telescopes are to astronomers, culture refers to everything that gives strength to the spirit. ——Ai Xiansheng
6. Criticism is not a question of taste, but a question of whose taste it is. ——James Grand
7. The most boring work cannot resist the critic's determination to find its charm. ——Harold Rosenberg
8. Real readers are almost as barbaric as writers, while most critics are docile people who seem to have established various systems. ——Randall Jarrell