The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
I saw the show under unfortunate circumstances: the curtain was up.
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
Each generation produces its squad of “moderns” with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
I saw this show under adverse circumstances – my seat was facing the stage. (On Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down.)
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
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.”
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
