Criticism Quotes

I've never let the criticism deter me.

— Jamaica Kincaid

A louse in the locks of literature.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I didn't know I got criticism.

— Mark Richt

Criticism is easier to give than receive :)

— Anas

Criticism does not constitute violence.

— Michael J. Knowles

Criticize the act, not the person.

— Mary Kay Ash

Time is the only critic.

— James M. Cain

“CRITICISM'' is a first step of a Success”

— Samar Sudha

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

— Ronaldo

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

— Don Sutton

I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.

— Charles Barkley

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

— Lena Dunham

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Grady Little

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

— Henri Matisse

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

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive,…

— Flannery O'Connor

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

— Matthew Arnold

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Clewes

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

— Norman Finkelstein

Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one…

— Clement Greenberg

A lot has already been written about this. Criticism has been ferocious. Still, most in the mainstream media have stopped short of…

— Neil Macdonald

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but…

— Anton Chekhov

For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will…

— Julia Gillard

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but…

— Winifred Holtby

Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to…

— Wafa Sultan

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded…

— Franz Grillparzer

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…

— Doris Lessing

“Since the arrows of criticism aimed at these legendary masters, who directed the workshops of their day now frequently strike me in…

— Orhan Pamuk

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book…

— Anonymous

I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity,…

— Seamus Heaney

“This is why, when we have been particularly impressed by a book, we feel the need to talk about it; we do…

— Wolfgang Iser

I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was…

— Chuck Klosterman

While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as…

— Mark Driscoll

“I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew…

— Gillian Flynn