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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
- Miller, Henry
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

3.
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond

4.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

5.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

6.
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

7.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

8.
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

9.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

10.
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

11.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

12.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

13.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

14.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

15.
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

16.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

17.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

18.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

19.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

20.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

21.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.
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

23.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

24.
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

25.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding

26.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

27.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

28.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

29.
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.

30.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Berger, John

31.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

32.
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

33.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

34.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

35.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

36.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

38.
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

39.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

40.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
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.

43.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

44.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

45.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

47.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

48.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

49.
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

50.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose


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