French Composer Eric Satie took his critics out to the woodshed with this satirical column:
“The mind of a critic is a store – a department store:
One finds in it a little of everything: science, bedding, the arts, traveling rugs, writing paper (foreign and domestic), history, smokers outfits, languages, umbrellas, belles-letters, humour, eyeglasses, perfumery, etc…
The Critic knows everything.”
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