Best 1830 quotes in «criticism quotes» category

You put your soul into something and people think they can pass judgment on it just like that." She snapped her fingers. "I'll never get used to the critics.

Your criticism works on those, who understand and able to correct their flaws. Otherwise, you are the victim of their ignorance.

Your constructive criticism has been noted and is appreciated. Fuck you very much.

You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.

Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky...more will want to do the former than the latter.

Your worth defines you, not your critics.

Youth need coaches, not critics.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

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

A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

A louse in the locks of literature.

Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.