Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming opinions, and then it’s all over with strict logic, and what you end up with is an absurd world republic and beautiful style.

I’m always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don’t think I could deal with the criticism

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism.

I’ve encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say – which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselve

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you

He who criticizes, be he ever so honest, must suggest a practical remedy or he soon descends from the height of a critic to the level of a common scold.

I’ve found out since that such people don’t know what they’re doing, and get insulted when you make some suggestion or criticism.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

Criticism is worth so much more than compliments.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible

We’re fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

I always wanna be able to fight. I always wanna be able to go left when they tell me to go right, not because I’m being hard-headed, it’s just me taking a creative stance. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but, at the same time, I have a problem with doin’ the same thing that everybody’s doin’. And that’s the way I’ve found a way to survive in the music game.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

Face your path with courage, don’t be scared of people’s criticism. And, above all, don’t let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

What we are doing is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole.

As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister’s arm caressingly. Celia understood the action. Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia’s mind towards her elder sister. The younger had always worn a yoke, but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

I receive reproof when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I have committed it.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

There’s a backlash about everything I do.

Not even they can stop me Now. Their heavy words cant bring me down.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that’s written about you… Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

You laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at you because you’re the same.