Quotes About Criticism

Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

Aldous Huxley absolutely detested mass culture and popular entertainment, and many of his toughest critical essays, as well as several intense passages in his fiction, consist of sneers and jeers at the cheapness of the cinematic ethic and the vulgarity of commercial music.

Love makes you accept the world; it puts an end to criticism.

For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made him feel larger.

Women, as usual, were expected to behave better than men, and inevitably attracted criticism for doing things that men were licensed to do with impunity.

We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

a prison of put-downs and belittlements.

We are very keen to disapprove.

Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory

Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

My people keep telling me I shouldn't write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn't I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Wasn't it just like good old mom to remind me my efforts were ill conceived and unnecessary?

You can't make a second career out of pointing out someone's flaws and expect them to love you

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

No such snake as family criticism had ever reared its head among the Lockwoods before.

the sheen of novelty had worn off. Sometimes it seemed to the performers and writers that the only comment they heard was how Saturday Night had gone downhill—indeed, that it had been going downhill since about the fourth week it was on. The higher the ratings got, the more disdainful the criticism became. Anne Beatts grew fond of saying that you can only be avant-garde so long before you become garde.

I think you're a shit,' said Keith sharply. 'I think much of what you've done this season is shit and I think what you've put everyone involved with this club through is shit. How's that?

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer had famously expressed, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer had famously expressed, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.