Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex. '
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms.
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says, "Criticism is a service industry. " I take that very seriously. I do the research so I can tell you interesting things. It's not condescending, it's educational.
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.
Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.
I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.