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Criticism
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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
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
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
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
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
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
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
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
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
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
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
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
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
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry
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
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
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
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
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.
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
Melbourne, Lord
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De
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
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
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean
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
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
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
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
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
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