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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
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

3.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

4.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

8.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

9.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

10.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

11.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

12.
Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer

13.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

14.
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold

15.
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

16.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

17.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

18.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

19.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Gibbon, Edward

20.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

21.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

22.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

23.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

24.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

28.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

29.
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

30.
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

31.
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

32.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

33.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

34.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

35.
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

36.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

37.
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

38.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

39.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

40.
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

41.
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

42.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel

43.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

44.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

45.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

46.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

47.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

48.
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
DiCaprio, Leonardo

49.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

50.
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


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