Best Quotes about Criticism
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell
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
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
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
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
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
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
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
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
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.
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
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
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
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
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles
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
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
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
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell
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
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
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
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.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert
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