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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

2.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

3.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

4.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

5.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest

6.
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

7.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

8.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

9.
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

10.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

11.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

12.
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Lewis, Sinclair

13.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

14.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph

15.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur

16.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

17.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

18.
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

19.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

20.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

21.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

22.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

23.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

24.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

25.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

26.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

27.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

29.
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.

30.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

31.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

32.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

33.
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

34.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

36.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

37.
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
Hemingway, Ernest

38.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

39.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John

40.
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

41.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

42.
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

43.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

44.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

45.
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

46.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

48.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

49.
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

50.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry


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