Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the… — Richard Bode
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take… — John Angell James
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination. — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed… — Wilfrid Sheed
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough. — Winston Churchill
The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one… — Jean de la Bruyere
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.… — Paul Valery
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to… — Charles Caleb Colton
In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was… — Robert Kennedy
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes,… — Saul Bellow
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. — Jimmy Carter
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. — Ernest Hemingway
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the… — George Steiner
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be… — George Steiner
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. — Ron Fournier
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. — Anatole France
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. — Benjamin Franklin
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. — Benjamin Franklin
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. — Margaret Fuller

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