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Criticism
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Best Quotes about Criticism
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles
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
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
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.
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
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
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
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Churchill, Winston
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]
Rossellini, Isabella
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.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
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
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
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John
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
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles
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.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
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.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
Fuller, Margaret
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott
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
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
James, Clive
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
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
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
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
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