Best Quotes about Criticism
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
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.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
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.
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
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La
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
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John
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 drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
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
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.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.
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
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
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
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
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
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.
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
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
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
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou
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
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille
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