Motivational Quotes
Criticism
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Best Quotes about Criticism
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
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
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar
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
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
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
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
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
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas
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.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon
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
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
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
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
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
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.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice
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
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Berger, John
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda
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