Creative Criticism Quotes

#1. You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

Rick Warren

#2. When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

Will Self

#3. Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Anton Chekhov

#4. A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

E. M. Forster

#5. The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative.

Jason Molina

#6. 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.

Daniel B. Wallace

#7. Rather than critique people, try admiring God's creative handiwork.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Will Self

#9. Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

Ben Brantley

#10. Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Camille Paglia

#11. Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.

Joe Budden

#12. Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
(Casual Chance, 1964)

Colette

#13. Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.

Marcus Samuelsson

#14. What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?

David Mitchell

#15. If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line.
[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

Max Frisch

#16. The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

G.K. Chesterton