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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
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

2.
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

3.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

4.
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

5.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

6.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

8.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

9.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

10.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

11.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

12.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

13.
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

14.
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.

15.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

16.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

17.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

18.
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

19.
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

20.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

21.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

23.
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]
Rossellini, Isabella

24.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

25.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

26.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

27.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

28.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

29.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

30.
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.

31.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

32.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

34.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

35.
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

36.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

37.
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

38.
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

39.
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

40.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

41.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

42.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

43.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

44.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

45.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

46.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

47.
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
Hutton, R. H.

48.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth

49.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel

50.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose


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