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Criticism

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

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Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Epictetus

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Aragon, Louis

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Picasso, Pablo

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Wilde, Oscar

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Lewis, Sinclair

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Baudelaire, Charles

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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.

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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Holtz, Lou

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A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Kundera, Milan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Williams, Bern

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Paz, Octavio

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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

James, Henry

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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

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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

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Richard Pryor

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Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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

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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Gibbon, Edward

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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.

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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Chandler, Raymond

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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Collins, Jackie

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

Jean Sibelius

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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.

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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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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverb, Chinese

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kael, Pauline

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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.