Critics Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critics Firsts Hated Unique
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's… — Steve Pink Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“Listen very carefully to the first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that the reviewers don’t like; it… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image