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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
James, Henry

3.
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

4.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

5.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

6.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

7.
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

8.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

9.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

10.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

11.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

12.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

13.
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

14.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

15.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

16.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

17.
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

18.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

23.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

24.
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
Hemingway, Ernest

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

30.
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward

31.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

32.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

33.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

37.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

38.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

39.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

41.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

42.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

44.
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.

45.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

46.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

47.
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.

48.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

49.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

50.
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


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