Critics Quotes - Page 34

• The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

  Paul Cezanne

  Character, Intelligent, Artist

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• [People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Lying, People, Criticism

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Riva Castleman, Wolfgang Wittrock, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1985). “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: images of the 1890's”

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• Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

  Man Ray

  Laughter, Criticism, Limits

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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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, Criticism, Done

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

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• The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

  Edouard Manet

  Spring, Broken, People

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• There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Courage, Believe

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  Nat King Cole

  Music, Ems, Records

  "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

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• A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Men, Arrows

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• Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists.

  David Suzuki

  Science, Small Numbers, Community

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• The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

  Anthony Trollope

  Writing, Editors, Habit

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.117, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Editors, Skulls

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• Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Appreciation, Editors, Criticism

  "Selected Essays".

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• Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Editors, People, Too Much

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• The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Editors, Horror, Reviewers

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.90, Macmillan

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• I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dirty, School, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

  Mark Twain

  Appreciation, Men, Editors

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.219, Courier Corporation

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• You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Book, Writing

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• Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Editors, And Love, Admirer

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• Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

  George Herbert

  Editors, Clothes, Noblemen

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

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• Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

  John O'Hara

  Sex, Book, Writing

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• Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

  William Kristol

  Country, Safe, Surveillance

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• My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

  Romany Malco

  Art, Made, Music Industry

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• When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

  Amaury Nolasco

  Watches, Dare, Watch Me

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

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• I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

  Josh Peck

  Thinking, Differences, Popcorn

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