Motivational Quotes
Criticism
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Best Quotes about Criticism
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph
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
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry
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
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
James, Clive
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret
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
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
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
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
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
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
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
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
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Congreve, William
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
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
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
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
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
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
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.
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