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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
- Disraeli, Benjamin
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

2.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

3.
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

4.
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

5.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

6.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

7.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

8.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

9.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

11.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

12.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

13.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

14.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

15.
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

16.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
James, Henry

17.
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.

18.
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

19.
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

20.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

21.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

22.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

23.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

24.
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

25.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice

26.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

27.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

28.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

29.
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.

30.
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

31.
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

32.
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

33.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

34.
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

35.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Berger, John

36.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

38.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

39.
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

40.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

41.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

42.
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

43.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

44.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

45.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

46.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

47.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

48.
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

49.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

50.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney


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