#criticism

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ↗

#agreeable #ask #criticisms #friends #pass

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell. ↗

— Howard Finster

#art #come #criticism #enough #feeling

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#care #criticism #i #i do #like

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. ↗

— Charles Simic

#deconstruction #language #poetry #experience

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#criticism #friend #hard #honest #particularly

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend. ↗

— Bernard Kerik

#best friend #criticism #friend #our #political

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#criticism #entirely #i #late-night #other

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning. ↗