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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
- Schlegel, Friedrich
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.

5.
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

6.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

7.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

8.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou

9.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Washington, Denzel

10.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

11.
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

12.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

13.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

14.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

15.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

16.
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

17.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

18.
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

19.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

20.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

21.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

22.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

23.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

24.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

25.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen

26.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

27.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

28.
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

29.
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

30.
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.

31.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

32.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

33.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

34.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

35.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

36.
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie

37.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

38.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

39.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
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

41.
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

42.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

43.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

44.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

45.
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

46.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

47.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

48.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

49.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Klee, Paul

50.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert


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