Claude Monet Quotes

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Applause waits on success.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

I'm glad that the audience and critics have liked my work.

When you're succeeding, and you're doing something right... As I've got haters, I know I'm doing something right.

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

I never felt like I had made it.

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

It's definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.