Criticism Quotes - Page 3

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.