Quotes about Criticism

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But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear — Eric Wright
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. — Will Self
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way becaus — Camille Paglia
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy crit — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them — Flannery O'Connor
The covers of this book are too far apart. — Ambrose Bierce
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce m — G.K. Chesterton
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall — Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of geni — Edith Sitwell
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work — Leszek Kołakowski, Metaphysical Horror
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the — Aaron Copland
The necessity of reform mustn’t be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise — Michel Foucault, The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the im — Theodor W. Adorno
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to — Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher — Fernando Pessoa, The Education of the Stoic
There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of — John Fraser, Violence in the Arts
His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because — Álvaro de Campos