Criticism Quotes

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

~ Mary Lawrence

There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.

~ Fennel Hudson

Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In the end, the process will make you a stronger, more flexible, and truly creative writer. It will replace attitude with genuine confidence, and empty arrogance with artistry.

~ Molly Cochran

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

~ Winston S. Churchill

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

~ Bob Dylan

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

~ Dale Carnegie

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

~ Abraham Lincoln

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

~ John Wooden

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) ass

~ John Scalzi

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

~ John Wooden

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

~ Virginia Woolf

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

~ Gustave Flaubert

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium.(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'Eight Days A Week.)

~ Simon Cowell

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

~ Neil Postman

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey)

~ Simon Cowell

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

~ Jonathan Swift

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' It is to turn the world into this world. ('This world'! As if there were any other.)The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have.

~ Susan Sontag

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

~ Jonathan Swift

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

~ Northrop Frye

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

~ Julio Cortázar

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

~ Joan Didion

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.

~ Suzy Kassem

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

~ Henry Adams

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

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

~ Charles Dickens

If you say something and reject any criticism, then your words truly meant to advise yourself.

~ Toba Beta

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

~ Virginia Woolf

Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier. (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs.

~ Franz Kafka

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

~ Julio Cortázar

You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

~ Julie Ann Dawson

Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.

~ Richard L. Mcguire