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When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson

2.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence

3.
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

4.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.

5.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Gibbon, Edward

6.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

8.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

9.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

10.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

11.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

12.
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

13.
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.

14.
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

15.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding

16.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

17.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian

18.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

20.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

22.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

23.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

24.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

25.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

26.
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

27.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

28.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

29.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

30.
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

31.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel

32.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

33.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

39.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

40.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.
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

42.
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

43.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

44.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

45.
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.

46.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

47.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

48.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

49.
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

50.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou


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