(Several critics have pointed out that) the play (Saint Joan) could be considerably shortened. I think they are mistaken. The experienced knights of the blue pencil, having saved an hour and a half by disemboweling the play, would at once proceed to waste two hours in building elaborate scenery… Joan would be burnt on stage […]
Critic - Criticism Quotes
I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I never met you, but if I do you’ll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps […]
I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.
It is a fact that more crimes are committed in one year on television than in six major cities of the United States; a threat or an act of violence was enacted every two and one-half minutes on children’s television shows.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them.
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.
When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she’s angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That’s why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
