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Criticism

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
- Kundera, Milan
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

2.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
Sontag, Susan

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
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

8.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

9.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

10.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe

11.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

12.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

13.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

14.
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.

15.
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

16.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

17.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

18.
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

19.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

20.
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

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

22.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

23.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

24.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

25.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

26.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

27.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

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

29.
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

30.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

31.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

32.
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

33.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

34.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

35.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

36.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

37.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

38.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

39.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

40.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

41.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

43.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

44.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

45.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

46.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

47.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Edwards, Tryon

48.
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

49.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

50.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord


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