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Criticism Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants…
- Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.
- I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed…
- Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.
- Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.
- Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of…
- Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer…
- Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them…
More Criticism Quotes
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- 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
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to… — James A. Baldwin
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become… — Joseph Addison
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting. — David Beckham