Virginia Woolf Quotes, Art Quotes, Criticism Quotes

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.

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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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