Quotes About Criticism

Più una società si allontana dalla verità, più odierà quelli che la dicono»

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it

colaborar para forjar una cultura en la que los estímulos y no la crítica, el liderazgo y no el victimismo, las ideas y no los chismes, y el amor y no el odio, ganen la partida.

Theodore Roosevelt: "It's not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;

Criticism is the defense reaction that scared people use to protect themselves against change.

course, when you show up like this, you will be misunderstood, unappreciated, criticized and perhaps even reviled for your blatant display of authentic brilliance. When this happens, remember these words of Winston Churchill: "You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare. Sparks also said his novels are like Greek Tragedies. This may actually be true. I can't check it out because, tragically, no really bad Greek tragedies have survived.

Orson Welles] was a man who made the greatest film ever made and was never forgiven for it.

Pauline Kael] had no theory, no rules, no guidelines, no objective standards. You couldn't apply her 'approach' to a film. With her it was all personal.

Of that one, I wrote: "Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time.

The other Bonds were not wrong in the role (even Lazenby has his defenders), but they were not Connery, and that was their cross to bear.

You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.

There are plenty of artists who are awoken by criticism to the meaning of their own works: such, for example, was T. S. Eliot's response to Helen Gardner's book about his poetry—namely, at last I know what it means.

Even socialists steer away from any criticism of the real corporate predation, which is the predation on future generations in which we too are involved. Like

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought

Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks.

Such is my opinion of your abilities as a critic," Hamilton addressed him directly, "that I very much prefer your disapprobation to your applause.

Like most people, Hamilton and Adams were preternaturally sensitive to flaws in the other that they themselves possessed.

Reproaching his slave carpenters, he said, "There is not to be found so idle a set of rascals." Of a slave named Betty who worked as a spinner in the mansion, he complained that "a more lazy, deceitful and impudent hussy is not to be found in the United States.

Rockefeller could brush off Tarbell's critique of his business methods as biased, but he was deeply pained by the character study.

Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism.