Best Quotes about Criticism
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
For every action, there is an equal and opposite 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
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible
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
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
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
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Edwards, Tryon
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb
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
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Chandler, Raymond
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.
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.
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Frye, Northrop
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
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril
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
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
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.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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