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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- W. H. Auden
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

2.
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

3.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

4.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

5.
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

6.
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

7.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

8.
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

9.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

10.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

11.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

12.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

13.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

15.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

16.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

17.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

18.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

19.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

20.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

21.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

22.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

23.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

24.
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

25.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

26.
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale

27.
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

28.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

29.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

30.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

31.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

32.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

33.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

34.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

35.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

36.
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

37.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

38.
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.

39.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
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

41.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

42.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Johnson, Samuel

43.
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

44.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

45.
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

46.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

47.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

48.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John

49.
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

50.
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]
Rossellini, Isabella


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