Motivational Quotes
Criticism
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.

Best Quotes about Criticism
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie
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
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
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
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
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
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
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
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph
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
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
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
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
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
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas
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.
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
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John
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.
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.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
Sontag, Susan
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
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
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
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
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.
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
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
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
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
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