We can have intentions with our work, and opinions that we try to express. The best we can do, is to produce our work. We can try our best to transmit what we want to put out there.
But how the transmission is received is out of our control. How the work is perceived and judged is not for us to decide. We cannot judge our work.
We can — at a safe distance — look back and evaluate if we are content with it. If we like what we made.
Is it any good? Is it good? Or great even? There is no way for us to tell.
Same goes for our inner critic. They are no better than us. They don’t know anything either. They’re not competent. So why should we listen?