Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
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.
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 […]
