Appreciation Quote by G. H. Hardy

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

— Sol LeWitt

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we…

— Pauline Kael

“When your mind is free of the incessant chatter from our inner critics, we are better able to attend to being our most authentic…

— Laurie J. Beck

“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in…

— T.S. Eliot

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

— George Jean Nathan

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

— James Cook

I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse…

— Edith Bowman

“...literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence.…

— John Carey

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

— Katharine Weber