This won’t be popular to say, but I think if you see criticism as an overture of friendship or even as a way of negotiating status within a specific world — hell, if you see art that way — you’re more likely to get some of that tossed back your way and care when you do. If you see these things as a job and a duty, both art and responding to art, I think over time that the reactions you get will have greater power in that context than in the other. Some people are going to like you and some people are going to dislike you, but I’ve benefited over the years from a lot of people realizing that this is what I do and what I owe them is the seriousness with which I take it, not a thumb pointing in one direction or another. Similarly, I want everyone to do as well as possible, even if they’ve made art or decisions with which I strongly disagree.