Motivational Quotes
Criticism
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Best Quotes about Criticism
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
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
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
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
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
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.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar
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
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
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
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
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
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
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
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton
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.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Picasso, Pablo
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
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice
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
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
DiCaprio, Leonardo
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
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
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
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