Criticism Quotes - Page 23

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

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

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.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand," he said, "I get undue credit.

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

Criticism is a life without risk.

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism and transphobia. The transgender lobby knows that censoring criticism allows the accusation of transphobia to prevail and appears willing to distort the words of those they disagree with.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.