To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
It is not the critic who counts
It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
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