Criticism Quotes And Sayings

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“Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.”
– Joan Didion

“Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”
– John Steinbeck

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
– John Updike

“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
– John Wooden

“That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.”
– Jonathan Swift

“We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.”
– Jonathan Swift

“There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.”
– Joseph Addison

“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”
– Joseph Conrad

“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
– Joseph Heller

“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 rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

“When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
– Judith Martin

“We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod … to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.”
– Julian Assange

“Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.”
– Julio Cortázar

“The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.”
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Critics can be your most important friend. I don’t read criticism of my stuff only because when it’s bad, it’s rough-and when it’s good, it’s not good enough.”
– Kevin Bacon

“People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don’t normally do, but I think that’s just a natural thing for artists. It’s like, ‘Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.’”
– Kristen Wiig

“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”
– Kurt Schwitters

“She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other’s faults.”
– L. Frank Baum

“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, – though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, – the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”
– Laurence Sterne

“You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.”
– Lena Dunham

“If I were white, I’d get less criticism.”
– Lenny Kravitz

“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.”
– Leslie Fiedler

“Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.”
– Lorna Luft

“Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.”
– Margaret Chase Smith

“Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.”
– Marilyn Manson

“Dare to risk public criticism.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.”
– Mary Kay Ash

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