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I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
- Barkley, Charles
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Best Quotes about Criticism

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

2.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

4.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

5.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

6.
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

7.
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

8.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

9.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

10.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian

11.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

12.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

13.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

15.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Chandler, Raymond

16.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

17.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

18.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

20.
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

21.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

22.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

23.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.
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

25.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth

26.
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.

27.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

28.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

29.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

30.
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond

31.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

32.
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

33.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

34.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

36.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding

37.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

38.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

39.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

40.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

41.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.
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

43.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.
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

45.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

46.
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

47.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

48.
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.

49.
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

50.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard


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