"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected."
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"I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free."
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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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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
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"Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin."
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"When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical."
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"I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free."
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"I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment."
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"The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion."
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"The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy."
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"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."
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"An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it."
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"Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment."
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"All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary."
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"A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy."
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"Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement."
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"They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism."
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"Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you."
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"Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press"
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