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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
- Hill, Napoleon
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Washington, Denzel

2.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

4.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

5.
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

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

10.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

11.
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale

12.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

13.
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

14.
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

15.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

16.
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

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

18.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

19.
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

20.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

21.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

22.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

23.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

24.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

25.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

26.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

27.
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

28.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

29.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

30.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

31.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

32.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

33.
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.

34.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

35.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

36.
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.

37.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

38.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

41.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

42.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.
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

44.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

45.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

46.
When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.
Sinha, Shall

47.
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril

48.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

49.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

50.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles


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