Best Quotes about Criticism
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton
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
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
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris
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
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
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
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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 man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.
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
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
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
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille
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
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
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
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
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted
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.
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
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.
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
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
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