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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
- Buxton, Charles
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

2.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

3.
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill

4.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

5.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

6.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

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

9.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

10.
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.

11.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Picasso, Pablo

12.
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

13.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

14.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

15.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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.

19.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

20.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest

21.
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.

22.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

23.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis

24.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen

25.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

26.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

27.
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

28.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

29.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

30.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

31.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

32.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

33.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

34.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

35.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

36.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

37.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

38.
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

39.
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

40.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

41.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

42.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

43.
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

44.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Smullyan, Raymond

45.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

46.
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

47.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

50.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton


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