I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment...… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past… — Martin Baker Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make… — Alonso Duralde Copy Share Image
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Never deny others their right to criticize or to hate you, and yourself your right to ignore them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics? — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you… — Dave Evans Copy Share Image
I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
