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Critics are already made.
- Byron, Lord
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

2.
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.

3.
Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer

4.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

5.
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

6.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

7.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

8.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

9.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

10.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

11.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

12.
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

13.
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

14.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence

15.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

16.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

17.
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

18.
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

19.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

20.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

21.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

22.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

24.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

25.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

26.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

27.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

28.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

29.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

30.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar

31.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

32.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.
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

34.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John

35.
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

36.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Klee, Paul

37.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

38.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

39.
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

40.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

41.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

42.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

43.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

44.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

45.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

46.
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

47.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

48.
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

49.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

50.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.


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