Criticism Quotes · Page 36

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

— Joseph Brodsky

I often wonder why I attract so much criticism.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“All Criticism is Good Criticism. Learn from it.”

— Jamilia Fair

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

— David Brin

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

— Charles Spurgeon

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

— Constance Rourke

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

— Richard King

You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.

— Mike Brearley

I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.

— Jeff Koons

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

— Judith Butler

“If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.”

— Buck Bannister

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when…

— Kevin Bacon

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film.…

— Ezekiel Elliott

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

— L. Frank Baum

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that…

— Dan Rather

If I'm only defined by my sport, I really have failed. Yes, I've opened myself up for more criticism, but I'm a…

— Adam Goodes

For a while now, I try to ignore the hoopla, because if you buy into that, you have to buy into the…

— Alan Menken

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia,…

— Anatoly Karpov

It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in…

— Joseph Addison

I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even…

— Paul Fry

Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in.…

— Robert Novak

When you're camping somewhere, you're backpacking, you're in the woods, you have to be disciplined. You have to be able to take…

— Josh Hart

Embrace who you are. You have been given every tool, every talent, and every trait you need to realize your destiny. You…

— Kemmy Nola

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the…

— Andrew Latimer

I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of…

— John Darnielle

I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You…

— David C. Driskell

The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of…

— MC Yogi

“We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the…

— Foz Meadows

The climatically inefficient and economically disastrous Kyoto Protocol, based on IPCC projections, was correctly defined by President George W. Bush as "fatally…

— Zbigniew Jaworowski

When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if…

— Daisaku Ikeda

On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

The criticism that Arsene gets is just a joke.

— Jack Wilshere

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

— Giuseppe Verdi

There is no such thing as constructive criticism.

— Dale Carnegie

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

— Robert Genn

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

— Walter Savage Landor

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

— Mao Zedong

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

— Gordon Ramsay

“Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana