By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Don’t abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
If you have no critics, you likely have no successes.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
Having for this purpose considered many expedients, I find in the records of ancient times, that Argus was lulled by music, and Cerberus quieted with a sop; and am, therefore, inclined to believe that modern critics, who, if they have not the eyes, have the watchfulness of Argus, and can bark as loud as Cerberus, […]
It is… the task of criticism to establish principles; to improve opinion into knowledge; and to distinguish those means of pleasing which depend upon known causes and rational deduction, from the nameless and inexplicable elegances which appeal wholly to the fancy, from which we feel delight, but know not how they produce it, and which […]
Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
