The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
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You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticize mine.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.
If we were without faults we should not take so much pleasure in remarking them in others.
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I […]
The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
