1,290 Quotes About Criticism

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

Big Tech is desperately afraid of public criticism, of someone taking a public stand.

Sometimes, we cannot tell whether something is beneficial long-term. So, we let time and the flow of events decide for us. There is nothing to prove. We submit to the divine process – not another and not our own ego. It is true humility and makes us invulnerable to domination by any other human. Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

You can change a chair the way you want -- cut it, polish it, paint it; it won't resist. But you can't force change on living beings. More you criticise or try to change them, more rigid and defensive they become. Not just mind, even your body won't change if you or someone else keeps criticising it.

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Lead the humans around you, but in your heart keep fostering pure humility towards those who follow as well as those who criticize.