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I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

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.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.