Criticism Quotes - page 5

Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism. (Northrop Frye)
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself. View quote
Northrop Frye
I like criticism. It makes you strong. View quote
LeBron James
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Strength and success- they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. View quote
John Steinbeck
In the hyper-sensitized reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians. View quote
Jane Fonda
Until you look forward to criticism, your Work's not done. View quote
Byron Katie
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. 'This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. 'I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect. View quote
Salman Rushdie
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world. View quote
George Steiner
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought. (Margaret Chase Smith)
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. View quote
Octavio Paz
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. View quote
Octavio Paz
Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it. View quote
Ray Charles
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. View quote
John Wooden
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. View quote
John Wooden
Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more. View quote
Wim Wenders
Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism. View quote
Wim Wenders
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. View quote
Wim Wenders
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. (Wim Wenders)
People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Understanding of other nations does not mean a feeling against your own country. That's the whole trouble with Germans. They can see only their own country, the local church steeples only. If only German youth could go abroad, and youth from other countries come to Germany. You always have to have criticism if you wish to become better. View quote
Albert Kesselring
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. View quote
Mary Kay Ash