Best Quotes about Criticism
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore
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
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
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
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
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
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
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.
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.
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
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
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
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
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.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
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
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
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
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
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
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles
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
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie
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
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
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
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles
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
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles
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