Clear Quote by Ezra Pound

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought…

— Matthew Arnold

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

— Aristotle

Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's…

— Chris Cornell

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

— Eugene Delacroix

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

— Thomas Sadoski