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Criticism

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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.
Sinha, Shall

2.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

3.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

4.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

5.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

6.
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold

7.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

8.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

9.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
James, Henry

10.
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

11.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

12.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

13.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

14.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

15.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

16.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph

22.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

23.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.
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

25.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

26.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Edwards, Tryon

27.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

28.
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

29.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

30.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Woolf, Virginia

31.
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.

32.
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.

33.
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Lewis, Sinclair

34.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

35.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

36.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

37.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

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

39.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

40.
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

41.
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

42.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

43.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

44.
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

45.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.
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

47.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

48.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

49.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

50.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline


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