Criticism Quotes - Page 32

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".

I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.

You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

I didn't get rattled by the criticisms. It is like delivering a baby. Some might say it has a flat nose or big eyes. But you cannot do anything about it and must learn to live with it.

Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.