Criticism Quotes - Page 20

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt.

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

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

A louse in the locks of literature.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.