Motivational Quotes
Criticism
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Best Quotes about Criticism
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
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
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
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
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
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
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
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.
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
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory
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.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton
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
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
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
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
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
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
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
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
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
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
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Pound, Ezra
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Carlyle, Thomas
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Johnson, Samuel
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic
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
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