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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
- Baudrillard, Jean
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

2.
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

3.
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.

4.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

5.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

6.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

7.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

8.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.
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.

10.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

11.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

12.
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

13.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

14.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Klee, Paul

15.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

16.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

17.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

18.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

19.
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

20.
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Lewis, Sinclair

21.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

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

27.
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

28.
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

29.
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

30.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

31.
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

32.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.

33.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

34.
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

35.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

36.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

37.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

38.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

39.
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

40.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

41.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

42.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

43.
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.

44.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

45.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

46.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

47.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

48.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset

49.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

50.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar


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