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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
- Kael, Pauline
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

2.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

3.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

4.
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.

5.
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

6.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

7.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

8.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence

9.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

10.
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

11.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice

12.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

13.
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

14.
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.

15.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

16.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

17.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

18.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

19.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

20.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

21.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

22.
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
Hemingway, Ernest

23.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

24.
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

25.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

26.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

27.
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.

28.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

29.
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

30.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Klee, Paul

31.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

32.
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

33.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

34.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Man, Paul De

35.
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

36.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

37.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

38.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

39.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

40.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

41.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

42.
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

43.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

44.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

45.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

46.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell


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