Criticism Quotes - Page 13

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

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

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).

I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.