Quotes About Criticism

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

People who say the system works work for the system.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.