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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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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

2.
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

3.
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

4.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

5.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

6.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

7.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

8.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

9.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

10.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

11.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

12.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

13.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

14.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

15.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

16.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

17.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis

18.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

19.
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
Fuller, Margaret

20.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

21.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

22.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

23.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

24.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

25.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

26.
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

27.
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

28.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

29.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

30.
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

31.
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.

32.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

33.
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

34.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

35.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

36.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

37.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

38.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

39.
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

40.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

41.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

42.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

43.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

44.
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

45.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

46.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

47.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

48.
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

49.
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

50.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou


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