All Quotes

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