The artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Don’t pay any attention to the critics – don’t even ignore them.
Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design. He that assumes the character of a critic, and justifies his claim by perpetual censure, imagines that he is hurting none but the author, and him he considers a pestilent animal, whom every other being has a right to persecute: little does […]
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
The stones that Critics hurl with Harsh Intent, A Man may use to build a Monument.
It is not by comparing line with line that the merit of great works is to be estimated, but by their general effects and ultimate result. It is easy to note a weak line, and write one more vigorous in its place; to find a happiness of expression in the original, and transplant it by […]
No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who’s giving it.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter.
You know who critics are? – the men who have failed in literature and art.
