#critic

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#am #changed #confidence #could #criticism

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.' ↗

— Chris Rock

#better #critic #film #going #say

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#deceives #few #few people #good #people

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing. ↗

— Chris Rock

#laughing #need #people #tell #you

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#back #course #critics #get #i

Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#literary-criticism

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#failed #lot #remembered #understand

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#analyze #blurt #creative #creative act #critical

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#argue #arising #before #capital #case