Top Criticism Quotes

Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Criticism Definition

(n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.

(n.) The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, 'try not to sin', 'be...

Programming your mind with positive thoughts each day will go a long way to keep you from allowing external criticism to derail your dreams.

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it s...

One of the easiest things in life is to judge others. One of the simplest things we can ever do is to tell how wrong people are. One of the most thoughtless things we can ever do is to show people the...

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to sta...

Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel is, it seems to me, a very special and rarefied kind of literary form, and was, fo...

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone...

With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recomm...

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and...

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called , and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards b...

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I h...