Best Quotes about Criticism
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Picasso, Pablo
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Hemingway, Ernest
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Gibbon, Edward
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Sontag, Susan
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
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.
Mencken, H. L.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis
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.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
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