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Criticism

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

2.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

3.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

4.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Adorno, Theodor W.

5.
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

6.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

7.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

8.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

9.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward

10.
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

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

12.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

13.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.

14.
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold

15.
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

16.
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

17.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

18.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

19.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

20.
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

21.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

22.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

23.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

24.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

25.
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.

26.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

27.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

28.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

29.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

30.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

31.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

32.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

34.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

35.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

36.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

37.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

38.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

39.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

40.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

41.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles

42.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

43.
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

44.
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Sontag, Susan

45.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

46.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Congreve, William

47.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De


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