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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.
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

2.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

3.
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

4.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

5.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

6.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

7.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

8.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

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

11.
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

12.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

13.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

14.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

15.
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

16.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

17.
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

18.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

19.
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

20.
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

21.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

22.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

23.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.

24.
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

25.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

26.
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.

27.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

28.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

30.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

31.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

32.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

33.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

34.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

35.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

36.
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.

37.
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

38.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

39.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

40.
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

41.
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Frye, Northrop

42.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

43.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar

44.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

45.
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

46.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

47.
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

48.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

49.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

50.
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.


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