An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
Matthew Gregory LewisDon't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy WarholTags: criticism
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan PoeBeing a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art
David ToopHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck
Eli WallachTags: criticism critics on-acting
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
G.K. ChestertonTags: art creativity critic criticism mystery crime detectives
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so
Gertrude AthertonTags: imagination writers criticism critics
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
Gustave FlaubertThese questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry AdamsThe aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
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