Criticism Quotes

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

Mere abuse is no criticism.

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

For months, Republican Party leaders have been talking about the need to unify the GOP, in part because of Donald Trump and his criticism of the establishment, which created such big divides.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

George W. Bush will not offer one word of criticism for any president. Not Clinton. Not Obama.

It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.