Criticism Quotes - Page 6

• Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Book, Funeral, Heaven

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

  Herbie Hancock

  Looks, Criticize, Values

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• People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  People, Faces, Praise

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• I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Honor, Pedestal

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• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  Hans Selye

  Fear, Self Esteem, Approval Of Others

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Pedants, Pedantic

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• Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

  Thornton Wilder

  Skeletons, Water, Rejection

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

  Errol Flynn

  Funny, Leadership, Wisdom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Littles, Endure, Adulation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friends, Wisdom, Hate

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• I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

  Ken Wilber

  Devil, Wish, Grain Of Salt

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Praise, Standards, Critics

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• Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Believe, Hype, Stuff

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• Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

  Alexander Pope

  Kissing, Sober, Critics

  Alexander Pope (1778). “The works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In four volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Carefully collated and compared with former editions: together with notes from the various critics and commentators”, p.7

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• If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

  Allison Mackie

  Weed, Garden, Roots

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• What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

  Norbert Lynton

  People, Want

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• It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

  Pablo Picasso

  Faults, Facts, Well Known

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• I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Ridiculous, Criticize

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.238

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• I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

  Claude Monet

  Past, Done, Want

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

  William Ernest Henley

  Artist, Giving, Relief

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• No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Benefits, Faults

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Sermons”, p.155

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• In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ridiculous, Synthetic, Intellect

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