Criticism Quote by Jordan Carl Curtis

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

“To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

— Aristotle

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

— Oswald Chambers

“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

— Susan Sontag

“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose…

— Rodolfo Costa

“Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“To those who value words of affirmation, criticism feels like a knife in the heart.”

— Paul E. White

“The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to…

— Susan Sontag

“Allowing criticism makes you perfect.”

— Clariville Sison

“Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not pretend to…

— Flannery O'Connor