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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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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.
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All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
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An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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