Criticism Quotes

Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.