People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?
If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
Criticism is a life without risk.
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
None are as offended as those who contrive offense.
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.
Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.
Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
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