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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
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

2.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

3.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

7.
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

8.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

9.
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

10.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

11.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

12.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

13.
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

14.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

15.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

16.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

17.
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

18.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

19.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

20.
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

21.
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.

22.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

23.
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

24.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

25.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

29.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

30.
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

31.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

32.
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

33.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

34.
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.

35.
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

36.
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

37.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

38.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

39.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

40.
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

41.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

42.
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

43.
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.

44.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

45.
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold

46.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

47.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

48.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

49.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

50.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere


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