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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
- Steinbeck, John
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

2.
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

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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.

6.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

7.
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

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Smullyan, Raymond

11.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

12.
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

13.
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

14.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

15.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

16.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

17.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

18.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

19.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

20.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

22.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

23.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

24.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

25.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

26.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

27.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

28.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

29.
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.

30.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

31.
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

32.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

33.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

34.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

35.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

36.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

37.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David

38.
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

39.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

40.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

41.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

42.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

43.
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

44.
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.

45.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

46.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

47.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.

48.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

49.
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

50.
When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.
Sinha, Shall


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