Quotes About Criticism

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.

It's hard to get it right, and they always blame you for something. If you're lucky, one of them thinks you're cool, for about five minutes, and the others think you're a disaster, or they all do. Charlotte has always been tough on me. Eric always

Trust one fool to see no flaws in another!

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt—

anybody who tried to sound the alarm was branded a far-right, racist xenophobe

the left invents problems to fill the void.

Play the victim card to attain power, then, once you have it, use it to shield yourself from legitimate criticism.