Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods , tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumour in the imagination.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one’s self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have […]
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.
Unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealousy and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
