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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Miller, Henry

2.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

3.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

4.
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril

5.
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

6.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

7.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

8.
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

9.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

10.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset

11.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

12.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

13.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen

14.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

15.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

16.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

17.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

18.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

23.
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.

24.
You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
Whistler, James Mcneill

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

28.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

29.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

30.
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

31.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

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

33.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

34.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

35.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

36.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

37.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

38.
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

39.
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
Hutton, R. H.

40.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

41.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

42.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

43.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

45.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

46.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

47.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

48.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

49.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

50.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb


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