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Criticism

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The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

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 should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.

Guinon, Albert

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

Rayburn, Sam

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

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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.

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Lowell, James Russell

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Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

Smullyan, Raymond

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In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Fielding, Henry

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

Pope, Alexander

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Costello, Elvis

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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

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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

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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Raphael, Frederic

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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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

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Miller, Henry

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If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Ironside, H. A.

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In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harold Rosenberg

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The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

James, Clive

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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

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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

Washington, Denzel

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

Pollock, Channing

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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

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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Lowell, James Russell

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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

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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

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Steinbeck, John

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Byron, Lord