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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.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

2.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

3.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

4.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

5.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

6.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

7.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

8.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

9.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

10.
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

11.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

12.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

13.
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.

14.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

15.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

18.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

19.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.
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

21.
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

22.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

23.
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

24.
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

25.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.

27.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

28.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

29.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

30.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

31.
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

32.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

33.
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

34.
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

35.
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

36.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

37.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas

38.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

39.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

40.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

41.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

42.
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

43.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

44.
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

45.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

46.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

47.
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

48.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

49.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

50.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John


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