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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
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

2.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

3.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

8.
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

9.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

10.
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

11.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

12.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

13.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

14.
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

15.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

16.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

17.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest

22.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

23.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

24.
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

25.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

27.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

28.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

29.
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.

30.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John

31.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

32.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

33.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

34.
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

35.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

36.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

37.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

38.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

39.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

40.
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

41.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

42.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

43.
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

44.
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Fielding, Henry

45.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

46.
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille

47.
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

48.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

49.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall


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