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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

2.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

3.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.

4.
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

5.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

6.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

7.
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

8.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

9.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

10.
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
Melbourne, Lord

11.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

12.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

13.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

14.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

15.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

16.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Chandler, Raymond

17.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

18.
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

19.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

21.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

22.
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

23.
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

24.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Pound, Ezra

25.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

26.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

27.
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

28.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

29.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

30.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

31.
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

32.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

33.
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

34.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

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.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

37.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur

38.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou

39.
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

40.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

41.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

42.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas

43.
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

44.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

45.
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

46.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

47.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward

48.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

49.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

50.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin


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