Motivational Quotes
Criticism
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Best Quotes about Criticism
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Woolf, Virginia
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.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Adorno, Theodor W.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore
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
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.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
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
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
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
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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 avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson
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
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
Melbourne, Lord
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
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
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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