Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

Most art is just surface noise. — Walter Darby Bannard
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect. — Robert Genn
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the… — Robert Genn
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. — Wayne Thiebaud
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism... — Wayne Thiebaud
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. — Norman Vincent Peale
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in… — Matthew Arnold
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man,… — Charles M. Schwab
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up. — Brigham Young
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not… — Theodore Roosevelt
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for… — Theodore Roosevelt
A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close… — Alvin Ailey
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's… — Walter Cronkite
...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus… — Michael Shermer
I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject… — Joe Bradley
It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of… — Todd Rundgren
It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine,… — Anjelica Huston
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. — E. W. Howe
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis… — Vladimir Lenin
The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism… — Vladimir Lenin
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look… — Vladimir Lenin
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical… — John Bolton
A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition. — Orrin Woodward

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