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Criticism should be a casual conversation.
- Auden, W. H.
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

2.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur

3.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph

4.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

5.
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

6.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.
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

8.
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

9.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

10.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

11.
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

12.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

13.
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

14.
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

15.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

16.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

17.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

18.
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

19.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

20.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

21.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

23.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

24.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

25.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

26.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence

27.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

28.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

29.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

30.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.
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

32.
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

33.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

34.
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

35.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

36.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles

37.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

38.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

39.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

40.
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.

41.
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Sontag, Susan

42.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

43.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

44.
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

45.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

46.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

47.
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

48.
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

49.
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
Eliot, T. S.

50.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Sontag, Susan


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