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Criticism

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

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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

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

West, Rebecca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

Fuller, Margaret

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Pound, Ezra

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Nunn, Gregory

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Murdoch, Iris

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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

Mascotte, John P.

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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

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

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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

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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

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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Smith, Sydney

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

Gourmont, Remy De

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Sontag, Susan

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

Franklin P. Jones

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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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Benjamin, Walter

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Blame is safer than praise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Collins, Jackie

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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 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

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

Williams, Bern

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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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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Sterne, Laurence

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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Joubert, Joseph

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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Rostand, Jean

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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Man, Paul De