More quotations tagged with “criticism”
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
—Jean Sibelius
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
—Henry Fielding
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
—Harold Rosenberg
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
—H. L. Mencken