Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Whistler, James Mcneill

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

Smullyan, Raymond

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Churchill, Winston

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Raphael, Frederic

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

Hill, Napoleon

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They condemn what they do not understand.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Churchill, Charles

16.

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

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

Buxton, Charles

18.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Nunn, Gregory

19.

The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Little, Lynn M.

20.

Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Burns, Robert

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.

Sontag, Susan

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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.

Briton, Crand

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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

Mascotte, John P.

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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Fuller, Margaret

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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

Clurman, Harold

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We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Miller, Henry

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

Buxton, Charles

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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

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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

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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

46.

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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.