Criticism Quotes - Page 12

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Remember that all is opinion.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Time is the only critic.

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

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.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

There is no such thing as constructive criticism.