Criticism Quotes · Page 51

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world…

— Anonymous

A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism.

— Ilkin Santak

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

— Calvin Coolidge

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

— Jim Root

I know what's it like when everyone has a go at you, when criticism is harsh, and your family is part of…

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

Take negative things that come your way such as insults others may hurl at you and make something positive from them

— Melchor Lim

It is not wise to judge others based on your own preconceptions and by their appearance.

— Alexia

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it…

— Camille Paglia

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody…

— Stephen Daldry

You are not being measured by your actions and reactions. You are being judged only by yourself and how you feel you…

— Danielle Maylyn

If you think your words are the waves that come to destroy my boat. You're completely wrong. Your words are actually the…

— Skylerbling

The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their…

— Alister E. McGrath

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There…

— C.S. Lewis

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling,…

— Brenda Ueland

In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never,…

— Chuck Klosterman

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting…

— Ernest Hemingway

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she…

— Virginia Woolf

For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to…

— Victor Davis Hanson

In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.…

— Edward Albee

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In reply to '@cloppingemo: everyone sees me as a failure and a horrible person and they make sure I know: 'Everyone', doesn't.…

— Patrick Stump

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if…

— Armando Iannucci

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for…

— Jalen Rose

I've learned a lot, been a sponge and just continued to take criticism in stride in good positive energy.

— Danny Green

During my playing days, when I used to see the repeat telecast of my matches, I used to feel bad on hearing…

— Sandeep Singh

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

— Christina Aguilera

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

— Yolanda Adams

Don't ever judge someone before you get to know them. You don't know their life story until they tell it to you.

— Sarah Moores

Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is…

— Seth Godin

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

— Toto Wolff

“Clearly, not uncritical apologetics but penetrating and thoughtful criticism is alone capable of bringing out the treasures of experiences and teachings.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”

— Ezra Pound

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

— Quentin Tarantino

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

— Ezra Pound

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

— Ruth Behar