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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

3.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

4.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

5.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth

6.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

7.
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.

8.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

9.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

10.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.
We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Miller, Henry

12.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

13.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

14.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

15.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

16.
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

17.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

18.
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La

19.
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

20.
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

21.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Chandler, Raymond

22.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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.

26.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

27.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

28.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

29.
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

30.
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

31.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

33.
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

34.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

35.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

36.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

37.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

38.
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

39.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

40.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

41.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

42.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

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

45.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

49.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

50.
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


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