If we were without faults we should not take so much pleasure in remarking them in others.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
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.
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn’t like.
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.
