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Blame is safer than praise.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Johnson, Samuel

5.
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

6.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

7.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

8.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

12.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

13.
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

14.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

15.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

16.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

17.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

18.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

19.
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

20.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

21.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

22.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

23.
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

24.
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

25.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

26.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

27.
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

28.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

29.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

30.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

31.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

32.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

33.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

34.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

35.
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

36.
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

37.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

38.
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

39.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

40.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

41.
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

47.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

48.
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond

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

50.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell


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