Criticism Quotes

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.