When Woody Allen found himself seated beside Hilton Kramer at a dinner party, he could not resist asking the famously judgmental New York art critic if he ever felt embarrassed when he ran into people whose work he had attacked. “No,” Kramer replied. “I expect them to be embarrassed for doing bad work.”
Critic - Criticism Quotes
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
The critic I am waiting for is the one who will explain why, with all my faults, I have been read for so many years by so many people.
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful to them, to praise, which deceives them.
You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticize mine. Pray cease to criticize mine, or else publish your own.
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs.
A good critic is the sorcerer that makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
