Best Quotes about Criticism
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
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
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.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
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
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.
Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Lewis, Sinclair
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius
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
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
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
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Carlyle, Thomas
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin
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.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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
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
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
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Gibbon, Edward
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
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
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
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
DiCaprio, Leonardo
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
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon
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
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