Criticism Quotes · Page 52

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself…

— Gore Vidal

Often, a correct criticism of President Donald Trump is he violates norms. Too often, those who criticize him resort to violating norms…

— Mary Katharine Ham

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

— Peter Schjeldahl

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by…

— Ann Romney

I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.

— Derek Jeter

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.

— Bill Parcells

Sometimes the best revenge is moving forward and being happy despite the people that try to drag you down.

— Anonymous

I did two years at art school in criticism and curatorial practice, but I dropped out because I was frustrated that there…

— Petra Collins

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now,…

— Mackenzie Davis

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a…

— DJ Spooky

I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t…

— Manny Farber

You try to shut the criticism out, but it's pretty hard to do. You see people on the street, friends, people that…

— Don Shula

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true,…

— William E. Gladstone

It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized…

— Jacob Bronowski

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed…

— Henry James

“And when you are foolish enough to identify yourself as a poet, your interlocutors will often ask: A PUBLISHED Poet? And when…

— Ben Lerner

“Part of what Milton valued in a good book then was contact with the mind of an author rendered otherwise inaccessible by…

— Leland Ryken

To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly…

— Michael Parenti

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’…

— Jonathan Swift

Americans are finally coming to a point where they're accepting of religious criticism, is because George Bush is the first president who…

— Bill Maher

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way…

— Howard Hodgkin

Realize that you are your own biggest critic. People do not see the faults in yourself that you do. So realize that…

— Anonymous

I think most athletes want to be told when they make a mistake. They don't want to be coddled. They can deal…

— Tom Herman

“Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.”

— William Faulkner

If the criticism is unjustified, then we are rewarded for our patience and good behavior in not retaliating.

— Anonymous

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

— Marshall McLuhan

There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get…

— Daniel Pfeiffer

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

— Harper Lee

NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

— Virginia H. Pearce

I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a…

— Pastor Maldonado

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost…

— Bernard Lewis

“Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow…

— Oswald Chambers

Yes, I do realize that men in sports media also face criticism and backlash, but the vitriol that is directed at women,…

— Jemele Hill

I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

— Elie Wiesel