Criticism Quotes - Page 31

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.

Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

Neither criticism nor praise should be highly regarded.

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.