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Criticism

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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

2.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar

3.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

4.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

5.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

6.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

7.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

8.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

9.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.
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

11.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

12.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

13.
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

14.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

15.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

16.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

17.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

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

20.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.
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

22.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

23.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

24.
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

25.
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

26.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

27.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

28.
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

29.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

30.
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

31.
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

32.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

33.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

34.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

36.
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

37.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

38.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

39.
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

40.
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

41.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

43.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

44.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

45.
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

46.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

47.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

48.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

49.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

50.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.


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