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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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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

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

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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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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Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

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Critics are already made.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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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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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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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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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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

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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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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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