Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

John Ashbery
John Ashbery

It didn’t pay very much, but it enabled me to get other jobs doing art criticism, which I didn’t want to do very much, but as so often when you exhibit reluctance to do something, people think you must be very good at it. If I had set out to be an art critic, I might never have succeeded.