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In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
- Fielding, Henry
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

2.
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

3.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

4.
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

5.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

6.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

7.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

8.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

12.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Woolf, Virginia

13.
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

14.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

15.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

16.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

20.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

21.
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

22.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

23.
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.

24.
Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer

25.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.

26.
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

27.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

28.
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

29.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

30.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

32.
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

33.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

34.
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.

35.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

36.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Gibbon, Edward

37.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

38.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

39.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

44.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

45.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

46.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
Sontag, Susan

47.
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

48.
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

49.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

50.
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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