Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think? What about the authority, the authenticity that comes from bringing all your intellectual, emotional and spiritual equipment to a piece of art or entertainment whilst still being uncertain and confused?
‐‐ Margo Jefferson
Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
‐‐ Diana Ross
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
‐‐ Robert Taft
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli
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
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran
Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier
Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.
‐‐ Joshua Bell
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
‐‐ Martin Parr
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
‐‐ Tibor Fischer
Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.
‐‐ Thomas Sadoski
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan
Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
‐‐ Harold Prince
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark
Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.
‐‐ P. Chidambaram
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
‐‐ Hugo Black
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
‐‐ Rosanna Arquette
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
‐‐ Harold Bloom
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad
Criticize the act, not the person.
‐‐ Mary Kay Ash
Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.
‐‐ David Brock
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
‐‐ Douglas Lain
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.
‐‐ Helmut Jahn
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
‐‐ Brendan Behan
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
‐‐ Jacqueline Leo
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo
Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.
‐‐ Terry Teachout
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
‐‐ Craig Charles
Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.
‐‐ Diane Kruger
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon
Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.
‐‐ Jon Cryer
Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.
‐‐ Alex Gibney
Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
‐‐ Nat King Cole
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
‐‐ Jonathan Raban
Critics established a snobbery toward me.
‐‐ Esther Williams
Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.
‐‐ Michael Dirda
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
‐‐ Paul Emsley
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
‐‐ Abhishek Bachchan
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
‐‐ Mitch Albom
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
‐‐ Annette Bening
Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz
Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
‐‐ Robert Mondavi
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
‐‐ Duke Ellington