Criticism Quotes

Will you read this? I think maybe it sucks. Or maybe it's awesome. It's probably awesome. Tell me it's awesome, okay? Unless it sucks." — Nick

I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded

Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.

If you want to criticize someone, do not compare him with an imaginary creature but yourself.

Where people are not present, talking about them is either lie or ridiculous.

People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

You're afraid of criticism, ' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.

When people give one star ratings, they seem to be trying to make a point. In my opinion, one star ratings don't make a constructive point. They are just unfair put downs to creativity.

Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise.

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

CRITICISM'' is a first step of a Success

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.

As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck.

Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

Critiquing a doer isn’t doing.

What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige?

Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

What someone else thinks of you is not what you have to think of yourself.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

To maintain our own economy, we are disturbing the nature's economy

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

If yourhands are tied towardsanyone who's in need ofa helping hand, let yourtangue also be tied

Who is the wrong person to criticise?You

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

To call you my critic is to call you my friend.

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.

In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]