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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
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Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
Melbourne, Lord

2.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

3.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

4.
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

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

6.
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.

7.
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

8.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

9.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

10.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

11.
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

12.
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

13.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

14.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

15.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

16.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.
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

18.
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

19.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

20.
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

21.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

22.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

23.
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

24.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

25.
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

26.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

27.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

28.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

29.
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

30.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

31.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

32.
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril

33.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

34.
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

35.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

36.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.
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

38.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

39.
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

40.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

41.
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

42.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

43.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

44.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

45.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar

46.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

47.
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

48.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

49.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

50.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin


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