Criticism Quotes

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

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

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

Critics are already made.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

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.

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

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.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Remember that all is opinion.

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

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

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.

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.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

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

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

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

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Criticism is a life without risk.

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

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

I don't necessarily "deal" with the criticism of others. I used to, but now I'm so confident in my walk with Christ that it simply no longer impacts me. I can't allow it to. I'm on a mission!

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.