Criticism Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criticism Critics Culture Prey
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities… — David Cecil Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Judge a person not by his ability to make money but by his ability to retain it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Lots of relationships fail because we spend more time pointing out each other's mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other's company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
