Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Cocteau, Jean

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Congreve, William

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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

Williams, Bern

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

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Byron, Lord

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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

Miller, Henry

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

France, Anatole

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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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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

Washington, Denzel

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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

Shenstone, William

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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Collins, Jackie

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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

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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

James, Henry

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

Sontag, Susan

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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

Pollock, Channing

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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Burroughs, William S.

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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

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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

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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Algren, Nelson

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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Johnson, Samuel

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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverb, Chinese

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Wilde, Oscar

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Kael, Pauline

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Berger, John

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Updike, John

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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

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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

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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Sontag, Susan

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They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Porchia, Antonio

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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

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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.

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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.

Briton, Crand

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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

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

Harold Rosenberg

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

West, Rebecca

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

Fuller, Margaret