Critic Quote by 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 a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses

— 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 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

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

— Anonymous

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Thomas Sadoski