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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
- Whistler, James Mcneill
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
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

3.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

4.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

5.
You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
Whistler, James Mcneill

6.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

7.
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.

8.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

9.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

10.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

11.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

12.
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

13.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

14.
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

15.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

17.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

18.
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

19.
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
Hemingway, Ernest

20.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

21.
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Fielding, Henry

22.
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]
Rossellini, Isabella

23.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

24.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

25.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

26.
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.

27.
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

28.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.
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.

30.
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

31.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Pound, Ezra

32.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

33.
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

34.
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

35.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

36.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

37.
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

38.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

39.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

41.
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.

42.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

43.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

44.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

45.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

46.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

47.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

48.
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

49.
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

50.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas


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