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



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

3.
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

4.
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

5.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

6.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

7.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice

8.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

12.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

13.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

14.
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.

15.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

16.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

17.
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

18.
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.

19.
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

20.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

21.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

22.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

23.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

24.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

25.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

26.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

27.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

28.
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

29.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

30.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

32.
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

33.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.
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

35.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

36.
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.

37.
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

38.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Smullyan, Raymond

39.
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

40.
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.

41.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

42.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

43.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

44.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

45.
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

46.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

47.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Berger, John

48.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

49.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

50.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese


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