Quotes About Criticism

As the author of a work, I don't relinquish author-ity to just any critic, particularly not to people whose work I've not read or don't respect; those biased by envy are the least relevant, and grounded grammarians who strangle or sterilize under a banner of superiority are a close second.

Si se le da la razón a Popper, como creo que debe hacerse, la conclusión a la cual se debe llegar es que la verdad misma es enemiga de la sociedad abierta y, en particular, de toda política democrática.

When anyone is critical of what I do, I'm just motivated by it. If someone says we're not good enough, then we just do better. If another tennis player says something negative, I say, "That girl will never beat me." We feed off the criticism.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.

You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

Why should beauty be suspect?

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again