Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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.

Best Quotes about Criticism

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Berger, John

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Williams, Bern

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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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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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Turner, Ted

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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

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

Guinon, Albert

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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

James, Henry

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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

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The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Little, Lynn M.

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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

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Steinbeck, John

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

27.

Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord

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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Richard Pryor

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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

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Fuller, Margaret

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

Miller, Henry

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Burns, Robert

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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

James, Clive

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Churchill, Charles

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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

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Aikman, Leo

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When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.

Sinha, Shall

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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