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Criticism

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
- Fuller, Margaret
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

2.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

3.
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

4.
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

5.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

6.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

7.
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

8.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

9.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

10.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

11.
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

12.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

13.
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

14.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

15.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

16.
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

17.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

18.
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

19.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

25.
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

26.
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

27.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

28.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

30.
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

31.
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

32.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

33.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

34.
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.

35.
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

36.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

37.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

38.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

39.
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

40.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

41.
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.

42.
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

43.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

44.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Sontag, Susan

45.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

46.
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

47.
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.

48.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

49.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

50.
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


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