Criticism Quotes

None are as offended as those who contrive offense.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.

Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

I don't take criticism lying down.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

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

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

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

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.