Criticism Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— 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

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

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

— Aristotle

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy…

— Patrick Stump

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

— Anonymous

Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a…

— Jacques Barzun