Blame is safer than praise.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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.
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
