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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.
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

2.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

3.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

4.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

5.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian

6.
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill

7.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

8.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Adorno, Theodor W.

9.
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.

10.
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

11.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

12.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

13.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

14.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

15.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

16.
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.

17.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

18.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

19.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

20.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Congreve, William

21.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

22.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

23.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

25.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

26.
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

27.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

28.
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Sontag, Susan

29.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

30.
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

31.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

32.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Johnson, Samuel

33.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

34.
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

35.
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

36.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

37.
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

38.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

39.
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

40.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

41.
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.

42.
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

43.
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

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

46.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

47.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

48.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

50.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Smullyan, Raymond


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