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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
- Burns, Robert
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

2.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest

3.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Washington, Denzel

5.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Smullyan, Raymond

6.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

7.
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La

8.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
Sontag, Susan

9.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel

10.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

11.
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

12.
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

13.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

14.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

16.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

17.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

18.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.

19.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

20.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

21.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

22.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

23.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

24.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

25.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

26.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

27.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

28.
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

29.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

30.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

32.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

33.
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Fielding, Henry

34.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

35.
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward

36.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

37.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

38.
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

39.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

40.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

41.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

43.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

44.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

45.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

46.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

47.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

48.
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie

49.
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

50.
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


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