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Criticism

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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
DiCaprio, Leonardo

3.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis

4.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

5.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

6.
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

7.
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

8.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

9.
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

10.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

11.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

12.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

13.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

14.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

15.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

16.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
James, Clive

17.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

18.
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.

19.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

21.
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

22.
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

23.
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille

24.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

25.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

26.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

27.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Chandler, Raymond

28.
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

29.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

30.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

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

32.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

33.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

35.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

36.
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

37.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

38.
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

39.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

40.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.

41.
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

42.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

43.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

44.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

45.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

46.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

47.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

48.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

49.
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

50.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin


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