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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest

2.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

3.
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

4.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

5.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

6.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

7.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

8.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

9.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

10.
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

11.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

12.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

13.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

14.
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

15.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

16.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

17.
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

18.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

19.
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

20.
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

21.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

22.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

23.
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

24.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

25.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset

26.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

27.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

28.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

29.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

30.
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

31.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

32.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

33.
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

34.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

35.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

36.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

37.
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

38.
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

39.
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

40.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

41.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur

48.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

49.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

50.
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


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