Criticism Quotes

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.

The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

I believe in criticism.

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

I was not used to criticism.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.