Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an… — Charles Baudelaire
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… — John Berger
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
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… — William S. Burroughs
Critics are already made. — Lord Byron
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… — Raymond Chandler
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded… — Immanuel Kant
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… — Joseph Joubert
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. — Samuel Johnson
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,… — Samuel Johnson
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
They condemn what they do not understand. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! — Henry James
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in… — Thomas Huxley
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being… — Karl Popper
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable… — J. Michael Bishop
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum… — Thomas Huxley

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