Criticism Quotes
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
Oscar Wilde
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
Lord Mountbatten
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
bell hooks
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!
William Morris Hunt
Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.
Eamon Dunphy
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.
Anton Chekhov
Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don’t hold up well under scrutiny.
Amanda Marcotte
All defensive responses to criticism are natural. (It is natural to think of our own perspective before someone else’s.)
Warren Farrell
I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
Sarah Palin
I don't take criticism lying down.
William Westmoreland
If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you're never going to improve.
Cole Sprouse
When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.
Mackenzie Davis
In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.
Conan O'Brien
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
Bjork
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
Juan Goytisolo
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
Jay Roach
I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.
Buzz Osborne
