Criticism Quotes

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

The real genres: good and bad.

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.

We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in.

That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.