Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Moliere

The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Little, Lynn M.

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

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

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Raphael, Frederic

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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

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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

Rayburn, Sam

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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Ziglar, Zig

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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

Shenstone, William

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Aikman, Leo

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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

Paglia, Camille

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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

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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Collins, Jackie

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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Simms, William Gilmore

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Paz, Octavio

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Miller, Henry

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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

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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

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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

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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.

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

Hugo, Victor

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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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

Guinon, Albert

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Lowell, James Russell

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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Bible

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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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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

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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Sontag, Susan

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

James, Henry

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

Richard Pryor

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Cocteau, Jean