Best Quotes about Criticism
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]
Rossellini, Isabella
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles
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
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
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
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole
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
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
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
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
DiCaprio, Leonardo
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
Sontag, Susan
When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.
Sinha, Shall
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic
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
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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.
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
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph
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
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence
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
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
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
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
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
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor
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