It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
~ Sylvia Plath
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
~ Wim Wenders
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
~ Renzo Piano
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
~ Ferdinand Mount
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
~ Harold Bloom
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
~ Paula Abdul
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
~ Henry Steele Commager
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
~ Andrea Bocelli
I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism.
~ Travis Scott
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?
~ Alex Honnold
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
~ Walter Benjamin
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
~ Harry S Truman
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
~ John Updike
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
~ Jane Campion
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.
~ Gil Penchina
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
~ Howard Mumford Jones
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
~ Sidney Hook
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
~ Wole Soyinka
