Criticism Quotes

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show.

The price of leadership is criticism.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

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

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

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

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

Democracy is about criticism.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

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

I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it.

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

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.