Criticism Quotes

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

Most art is just surface noise.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Uninvited criticism is insult.

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.