Criticism Quotes - Page 24

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

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

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the sefl-righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and borderline insane.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.