The good critic relates the adventures of his soul among works of art.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense.
There are two modes of criticism. One which… crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also prey to insects or have suffered by drouth. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its soil may be a pretty, graceful […]
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail […]
The twenty third century scholars made another exceptionally interesting observation. They pointed out that twentieth century institutions were caught in a savage crossfire between uncritical lovers and unloving critics. On the one side, those who loved their institutions tended to smother them in an embrace of death, loving their rigidities more than their promise, shielding […]
Why now, these fellows are only advertising my book; it is surely better a man should be abused than forgotten.
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.
