Motivational Quotes

Criticism

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Murdoch, Iris

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Steinbeck, John

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

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

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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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Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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

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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.

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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

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Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Carnegie, Dale

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.

Sontag, Susan

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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Chandler, Raymond

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A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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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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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

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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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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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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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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

James, Clive

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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When the critics come around it's always too late.

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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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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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

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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Williams, Bern

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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

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

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Edwards, Tryon

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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Bible

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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb

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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Buxton, Charles

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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