Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
I wish that I had copies of all the pamphlets written against me, as it is said Pope had. Had I known that I should make so much noise in the world, I should have been at pains to collect them. I believe there is hardly a day in which there is not something about […]
In trusting therefore to the sentence of a critic, we are in danger not only from that vanity which exalts writers too often to the dignity of teaching what they are yet to learn, from that negligence which sometimes steals upon the most vigilant caution, and that fallibility to which the condition of nature has […]
So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
A man who tells me my play is very bad, is less my enemy than he who lets it die in silence. A man, whose business it is to be talked of, is much helped by being attacked.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
The good critic relates the adventures of his soul among works of art.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense.
There are two modes of criticism. One which… crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also prey to insects or have suffered by drouth. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its soil may be a pretty, graceful […]
