“The Grapes of Wrath is just about as good as any picture has a right to be; if it were any better, we just wouldn't believe our eyes.”— Frank S. Nugent
“It is in the nature of the artistic masterpiece to be so rich that it is impossible to exhaust its significance.”— Charles Rosen
“This is a work... which I am persuaded is the finest and most profound... of any that has been hitherto made public.”— Samuel Wesley
“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter—perfect in its bud as in its bloom.”— James Abbott McNeill Whistler