Quotes About Criticism

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

I often reread passages of Lolita for its exquisite language. To me, Lolita has no message, no purpose, other than to exist as a marvel of literary creation. It has wit, intelligence and style. It pointedly makes no attempt to serve a higher moral purpose, and previous attempts by critics to find one have proven ludicrous. The annotated edition is accompanied by a brilliant afterword by Nabokov that is a lucid reminder of the pure joy of writing, its interplay with life.

Then again, it seemed my mother was always displeased with all her friends, with me, and even with my father. Something was always missing. Something always needed improving. Something was not in balance. This one or that had too much of one element, not enough of another.

Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.

For jaded people, the only pleasure left is to demolish others.

I must revert again to the perpetual theme: in the criticism of Melville & Whitman, and even Poe, Lawrence revealed a magnificent force, an understanding beyond all criticism heretofore known. The roughness & simplicity, the apparent laziness of it is disarming. Underneath tho' a terrible power & penetration.)

is a difference between being open to constructive criticism and letting jealous strangers say cruel things to you that make you feel bad about yourself. As

Let them laugh at their passions.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them.

While adulation has its moments and can be like a bath in warm water after coming in from a snowstorm, the psychic high from standing up for what you believe in and being attacked for it far surpassed the comfort to be derived from that bath of praise.

Ann Coulter is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass

Why the gay press doesn't review your books? They don't? They don't, Arthur. Don't pretend you haven't noticed. You're not in the cannon.

I will find your books and review with nastiness.

We have to be able to criticize what we love, say what we have to say. Cause if you're not trying to make something better then as far as I can tell you are just in the way.

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

Barbara appraised her with critical eyes. 'Oh my. Well, this is going to need some work.' She went right to Carmen's hips and pulled the unfinished seams open. 'Yes, we'll have to take this way out. I'm not sure I have enough fabric. I'll check when I get back to my office.' You are a horrible witch, Carmen thought. She knew she looked absolutely awful in the dress. She was part Bourbon Street whore and part Latina first-communion spectacle.