Quotes of: Criticizing Keyword

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

An Essay on Criticism

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

An Experiment in Criticism

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

An Essay on Criticism

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Eastern Standard Tribe

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

A brick could be used to silence your critics. Think of it like a really thick and unchewy piece of chewing gum. 


Blanket

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

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

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Li Ka-shing

No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

Will Arnett

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

James Polshek

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

Charles Saatchi

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

Helen Vendler

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Leslie Fiedler

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

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Advice to a Young Critic

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.

Afterlife

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

Virginia Postrel

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

Yoko Ono