Motivational Quotes
Criticism
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

Best Quotes about Criticism
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
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
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie
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
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
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 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.
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
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell
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
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
Eliot, T. S.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
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
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert
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.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
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.
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
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
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
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
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
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.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
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
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
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.
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
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
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
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
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