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The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
- Maugham, W. Somerset
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.

2.
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

3.
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
Fuller, Margaret

4.
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

5.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

6.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

7.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

8.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

9.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

10.
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

11.
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.

12.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

13.
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
Eliot, T. S.

14.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

15.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

16.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.
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

18.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

19.
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

20.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.
Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer

22.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

23.
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
Hemingway, Ernest

24.
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

25.
We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Miller, Henry

26.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

27.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

28.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

29.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

30.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

31.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

32.
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

33.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

34.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

35.
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

36.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

37.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

38.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.
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

40.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Chandler, Raymond

41.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

42.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

43.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

44.
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

45.
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

46.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian

47.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

48.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

49.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

50.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John


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