Best Quotes about Criticism
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore
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
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
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
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Chandler, Raymond
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney
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
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
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
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice
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
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
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
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
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
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De
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
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.
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
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
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
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
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
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
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel
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
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