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Criticism
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.

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell
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.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand
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
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
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
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
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
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
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Adorno, Theodor W.
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
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
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.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
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
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
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
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Churchill, Winston
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
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
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham
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
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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
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