#critic

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#attention #body #calls #criticism #fulfils

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#credit #critics #eventually #find #give

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#cultivate #public #you

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#because #could #critics #else #hurt

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#books #critics #never #people #read

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#criticize #i #long #substitute #training

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bad-reviews #boring #complain #literary-criticism #lotr

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#come #criticism #discover #exhibition #hopefully

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#anything #criticized #does #everybody #like

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#harsh #i #quo #status #status quo