Criticism Quotes - Page 11

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

I'm very strong in who I am, I'm very happy where I am. And wherever, as you know some people go overboard with criticism, but you know what? I would say look in your mirror, and see who you are, and what did you do.

Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

There is a certain justice in criticism.

Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.

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

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

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

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

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.

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

Someone said to me... ‘A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don’t you just make the request? Why don’t you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?’

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.