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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
- Franklin P. Jones
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

2.
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

3.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

4.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

5.
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

6.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas

7.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

9.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

10.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

11.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

12.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

13.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

14.
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

15.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

16.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

17.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

18.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

19.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

20.
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

21.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Chandler, Raymond

22.
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

23.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

24.
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

25.
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

26.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

27.
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.

28.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Picasso, Pablo

29.
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

30.
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

31.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

32.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

33.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

34.
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

35.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

36.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

37.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Man, Paul De

38.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

39.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

40.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

41.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe

42.
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]
Rossellini, Isabella

43.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

44.
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

45.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

46.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

47.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

48.
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

49.
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

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


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