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Criticism
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.
Best Quotes about Criticism
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.
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
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
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Woolf, Virginia
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De
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.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Johnson, Samuel
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Sontag, Susan
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert
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.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott
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
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
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
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
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
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
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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