Tim Minchin Quotes

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

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

Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.

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

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

I love constructive criticism.

There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.