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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
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

2.
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

3.
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

4.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

5.
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

6.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

7.
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale

8.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

9.
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

10.
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Hemingway, Ernest

11.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

12.
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

13.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

14.
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

15.
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

16.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

17.
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

18.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

19.
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

20.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

21.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

22.
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

23.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

24.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

25.
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

26.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

27.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset

28.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

29.
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

30.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

35.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

37.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

38.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

39.
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

40.
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

41.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

42.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph

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

45.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

46.
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill

47.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

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

49.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

50.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John


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