Quotes About Self-critique

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I'm not very good at being objective about myself.

I'm ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers. Mr. Darcy

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.

I was getting used to the caustic voice in my head. It and I had made a peace when I realized that it wasn't urging me to lie down and die, just critiquing my inadequate efforts to stay alive.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Moi, je ne tiens pas les rancunes et j'avoue tout, complaisamment : pour l'autocritique, je suis doué, à la condition qu'on ne prétende pas me l'imposer.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

Thank God for white paint because many of my paintings have paintings underneath them because I'm a perfectionist and if I don't like my art I'm pretty sure no one else will.

It's good to vandalize one's own work.