Quotes About Criticism

PERFECT ORDER BEFORE YOU CRITICIZE

Furthermore, when their social contraptions fail to fly, ideologues blame not themselves but all who see through the simplifications.

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken to hum it and the street organs to play it, so the work of art that has appealed to the sham connoisseurs, that is admired by the uncritical, that is not content to rouse the enthusiasm of only a chosen few, becomes for this very reason, in the eyes of the elect, a thing polluted, commonplace, almost repulsive.

et, en effet, si le plus bel air du monde devient vulgaire, insupportable, dès que le public le fredonne, dès que les orgues s'en emparent, l'œuvre d'art qui ne demeure pas indifférente aux faux artistes, qui n'est point contestée par les sots, qui ne se contente pas de susciter l'enthousiasme de quelques-uns, devient, elle aussi, par cela même, pour les initiés, polluée, banale, presque repoussante.

Da grima escuchar las inepcias que a toda hora se dicen.

Reverenciará a su más cruel adversario, si éste se encumbra; desdeñará a su mejor amigo si nadie lo elogia. Su criterio carece de iniciativas. Sus admiraciones son prudentes.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

Upang matawag na isang dakilang kritiko, wala nang hihigit pa sa pagpapamalas ng kawalang-kasiyahan sa lahat ng bagay.

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

JESUS LOVES YOU—EVERYONE ELSE THINKS YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

You're a little short on self-awareness. People who are always exacting right behaviour from other people tend to be that way.

it is unfair to characterize the work of postmodernists as "bad writing," despite the fact that a lot of it is actually bad writing.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

Take no notice of Crowfur. He'd find fault with StarClan.

How could she criticize her mother when, in truth, she wanted to be just like her, brave