Motivational Quotes
Criticism
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.

Best Quotes about Criticism
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert
We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Miller, Henry
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher
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
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
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.
Wilder, Thornton
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
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
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
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline
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
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.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander
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
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive
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
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.
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
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward
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
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
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
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
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
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
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
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
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
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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