Criticism Quotes

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Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers. — Gore Vidal
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the… — Gore Vidal
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them. — Douglas MacArthur
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor. — Agnes Repplier
Slander is worse than cannibalism. — Saint John Chrysostom
The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism. — Yasmin Mogahed
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. — Publilius Syrus
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know… — Jonathan Swift
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster
Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. — Isaac D'Israeli
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. — Rainer Maria Rilke
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. — Walter Savage Landor
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving.… — Ben Hecht
Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers,… — Jim Gaffigan
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… — Kenneth Tynan
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. — Anne Stevenson
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. — Walter Pater
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom

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