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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
- Man, Paul De
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

2.
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

3.
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril

4.
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

5.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

6.
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

7.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

9.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

10.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

11.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

12.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

13.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.

15.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar

16.
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

17.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

18.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

19.
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

20.
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

21.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

22.
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.

23.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

24.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

25.
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

26.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Churchill, Winston

27.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

28.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

29.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

30.
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

31.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

32.
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

33.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

34.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

35.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

36.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

37.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

38.
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

39.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

41.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

42.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

43.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

44.
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

45.
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.

46.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

47.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

48.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

49.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

50.
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


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