Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are non-coercive knowledge…

— Edward W. Said

“We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring,…

— Foz Meadows

“Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”

— Pierre Bayard

“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in…

— T.S. Eliot

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable…

— Theodor Adorno

“A culture will tolerate criticism of its idols only when the criticism is made by those who worship the idols.”

— John Mark Reynolds

“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as…

— Richard L. McGuire

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side…

— Anonymous

“Human beings, for all our accomplishments, can be fragile animals. Most of us don't take criticism well at all.”

— Steven D. Levitt

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“once heard someone say that criticism is like a nut surrounded by a hard shell. The hard shell represents a projected experience from a…

— Chris Guillebeau