Quotes About Criticism

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

I always am astounded at how willing Steve was to share all about himself. And sometimes he got criticized for it. But he was so open and yet so private about some things.