Alexander Pope Quotes, Light Quotes, Criticism Quotes

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Writing Quotes , Criticism Quotes

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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

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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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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

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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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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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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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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Criticism Quotes

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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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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