Best Quotes about Criticism
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert
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.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
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
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.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
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
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
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
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.
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
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
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
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Carlyle, Thomas
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
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
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.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton
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
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Pound, Ezra
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
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.
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