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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

2.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

3.
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Hemingway, Ernest

4.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

5.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

6.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

7.
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

8.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.
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

10.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

11.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

12.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

13.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

14.
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

15.
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

16.
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

17.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

18.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

20.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

21.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

23.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

24.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.
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

26.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

27.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

28.
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

29.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

30.
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

31.
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

32.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

33.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

34.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

35.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

36.
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.

37.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

38.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

39.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

40.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Klee, Paul

41.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

42.
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

43.
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.

44.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

45.
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

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

49.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

50.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere


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