Criticism Quotes

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Ezra Pound
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Tim Ferriss
- Criticism
- Data
- Hold Up

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Stephen Spender
- Justice
- Certain
- Critics
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.

N. Katherine Hayles
As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

John Gourley Portugal. The Man
- Good
- Criticism
In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never, ever doing exclusively criticism. In the daily newspaper world, much more value is placed on reporting than on thinking abstractly about art. The eight years I was in newspapers, I was mainly a journalist in the conventional sense, and just doing criticism when there were opportunities.

Chuck Klosterman
- World
- Thinking
- Art
The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don’t think about it.

John Wooden
- Learning
- Model
- Habit
I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

Claire Messud
- Work
- Criticism