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Criticism

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
- Wilder, Thornton
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

2.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

3.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

4.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

5.
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.

6.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

7.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

8.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

9.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

10.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

11.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

12.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

13.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

14.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

15.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

16.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian

17.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

18.
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

19.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

21.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar

22.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

23.
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

24.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

25.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

26.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

27.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

28.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

29.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

30.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

31.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

32.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

33.
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

34.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

40.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

41.
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

42.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Klee, Paul

43.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

44.
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

45.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

46.
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

47.
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

48.
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

49.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David


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