#critic

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#critics #degree #determination #dullness #fascinating

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#country #criticizes #his #implied #paying

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#creative #critical #exist #faculty #highest

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#critics #first #gore #outspoken #senator

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

#before #bring #critic #evidence #finished

Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical. ↗

— Ian St. John

#everybody #finishes #first #first thing #goes

I never wish for critics. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #never #wish

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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