Motivational Quotes
Criticism
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Best Quotes about Criticism
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Frye, Northrop
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar
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.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German
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
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
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
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
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.
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
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
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
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.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
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.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La
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
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar
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.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
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
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
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
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
He who throws dirt always loses ground.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney
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