So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
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.
Not long ago a much esteemed writer informed the world that he felt “disposed to cry out with delight” before a figure by Michael Angelo. I wonder whether he would feel disposed to cry out before a real Michael Angelo, if the critics had decided that it was not genuine, or before a reputed Michael […]
I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.
Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: ‘Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
