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

1.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

2.
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

3.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

4.
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

5.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

6.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

7.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

8.
We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Miller, Henry

9.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

10.
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

11.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

12.
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Frye, Northrop

13.
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

14.
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

15.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

16.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

17.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

18.
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

19.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

20.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

27.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

28.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

29.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

30.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

31.
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

32.
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

33.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

34.
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

35.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

36.
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

37.
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.

38.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

39.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

40.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
James, Clive

41.
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

42.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

43.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

44.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

45.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

47.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Congreve, William

48.
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

49.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

50.
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


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