Criticism Quotes · Page 68

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas…

— Walter Benjamin

We always complain about others but MOSTLY people's behavior towards us is a mirror image of our own actions.

— Ash Sweeney

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to…

— Charles Saatchi

“EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.”

— Abner Cole

I feel like so many people don't know the difference between constructive criticism & being rude.

— Tiffany Alvord

“In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.”

— Voltaire

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and…

— Paul Fry

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…

— Billy Crystal

I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often…

— Shinzo Abe

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book…

— William S. Burroughs

The press still considers me one of the most laid-back athletes since Babe Ruth. That's supposed to be a criticism, but I…

— Fred Couples

In truth, when it comes to criticism, football makes for rich pickings. Only a handful of teams can ever achieve anything each…

— David James

“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous,…

— Dale Carnegie

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The…

— Stephen Malkmus

The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

— James Webb Young

No one has the right to judge you. They might have heard your stories, but they didn't feel what you were going…

— Nikhil Saluja

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Often people that criticize your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you…

— Air Hostess

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side…

— Carmen Electra

People have no right to judge us no matter how good, rich they are as long as they are just a human…

— Anonymous

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

— Alice Walker

In regard to criticism, we are in the world of football and subject to continuous criticism.

— Ernesto Valverde

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

— John M. Gottman

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery…

— Robert Adams

When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.

— Bobby Kotick

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

— John Fante

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

— Samuel Johnson

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

— Deborah Tannen

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Brigham Young

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

— John F. Kennedy

If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead…

— Robert Christgau

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,…

— William Ernest Henley