William Blake Quotes, Eye Quotes, Criticism Quotes

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

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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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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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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

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

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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

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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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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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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Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

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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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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Criticism Quotes , Pay Quotes

There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a 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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Criticism Quotes

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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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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