Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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

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.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Addison, Joseph

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Jean Sibelius

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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Buxton, Charles

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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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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

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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

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When the critics come around it's always too late.

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

Pollock, Channing

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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

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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Mizner, Wilson

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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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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

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Steinbeck, John

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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

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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Ziglar, Zig

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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Sontag, Susan

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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.

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

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

West, Rebecca

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

Churchill, Charles

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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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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

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Sinha, Shall

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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

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

Cartwright, Bill

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They condemn what they do not understand.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Williams, Bern

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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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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

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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Slater, Christian

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Updike, John

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Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord