Criticism Quotes

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

Abraham Lincoln

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

James Mcneill Whistler

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oscar Wilde

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Oscar Wilde

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Oscar Wilde

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Jackie Collins

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Mark Twain

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Charles Horton Cooley, Life and

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Bible

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Dale Carnegie

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

James Russell Lowell

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

James Russell Lowell

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Marianne Moore

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

They condemn what they do not understand.

Marcus Tullius Cicero