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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

2.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

3.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

4.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

5.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
James, Henry

6.
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

7.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

8.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

9.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

10.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

11.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.
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

13.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

14.
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

15.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

16.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

17.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

18.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

19.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

20.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

21.
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.

22.
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.

23.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

24.
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
Melbourne, Lord

25.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

26.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson

27.
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

28.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

29.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

31.
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

32.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

33.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

34.
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.

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

39.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Woolf, Virginia

40.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

42.
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

43.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

44.
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

45.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

46.
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

47.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

48.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

49.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

50.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis


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