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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
- Berger, John
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Churchill, Winston

2.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

3.
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.

4.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

5.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

7.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

8.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson

9.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

10.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

11.
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.

12.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

13.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles

14.
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

15.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

16.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

17.
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
Eliot, T. S.

18.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

20.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth

21.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

22.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

23.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

24.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David

25.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

26.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.
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

28.
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille

29.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

31.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

32.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Man, Paul De

33.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

34.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

35.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

36.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

37.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

38.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

39.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

40.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

41.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.

42.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

43.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice

44.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

46.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

47.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

48.
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
DiCaprio, Leonardo

49.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

50.
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond


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