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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.
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Best Quotes about Criticism

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

2.
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

3.
You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
Whistler, James Mcneill

4.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

5.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

6.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

7.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

8.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

9.
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.

10.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

11.
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.

12.
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

13.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
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

15.
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril

16.
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

17.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

18.
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

19.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

20.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

22.
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.

23.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

24.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

25.
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

26.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

27.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

28.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

29.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

30.
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

31.
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

32.
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.

33.
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

34.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

35.
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold

36.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

37.
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

38.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

39.
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

40.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

41.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

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.
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

44.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

45.
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

46.
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.

47.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

48.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

49.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

50.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean


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