Criticism Quotes - page 2

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. (Bertrand Russell)
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. View quote
George Steiner
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. View quote
George Steiner
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. View quote
Franklin P. Jones
Silence is the severest criticism. View quote
Charles Buxton
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. View quote
Wim Wenders
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. View quote
Immanuel Kant
To silence criticism is to silence freedom. View quote
Sidney Hook
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. View quote
Ann Patchett
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. View quote
Brendan Fraser
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. View quote
Albert Ellis
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. View quote
Alfred Binet
National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services. View quote
Corazon Aquino
You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do. View quote
Renny Harlin
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. View quote
Anne Stevenson
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)
When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions. View quote
Fred Astaire
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. View quote
Paul Samuelson
I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. View quote
Karl Barth