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Critics Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
- 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,…
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot…
- There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work…
- A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
- The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
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- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and… — Charles Barkley
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. — Paul Cezanne