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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
Fuller, Margaret

3.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

4.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

5.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

6.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

7.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

8.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

9.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

10.
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward

11.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

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

13.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

14.
We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Miller, Henry

15.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

16.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Adorno, Theodor W.

20.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

21.
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

22.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

23.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

24.
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

25.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

26.
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.

27.
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

28.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

30.
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

31.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

32.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

33.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

34.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

35.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

36.
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

37.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

38.
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

39.
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

40.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

41.
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

42.
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Hemingway, Ernest

43.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

44.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

45.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

46.
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

47.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

48.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

49.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

50.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.


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