Criticism Quotes - Quotations and Proverbs on Criticism

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art. It illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen. – George Jean Nathan
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. – Samuel Johnson
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. – Zeuxis
I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise. – Noel Coward
People ask you for criticism; but they only want praise. – Somerset Maugham
As far as criticism is concerned, we don’t resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases. – John Vorster
Criticism of public men is a welcome sign of public awakening. It keeps workers on the alert. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Throughout my life I have gained more from my critic friends than from my admirers. – M. K. Gandhi
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car. – Kenneth Tynan
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. – Disraeli
A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces. – Anatole France
What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. – Holmes
If the critics were always right, we should be in deep trouble. – Robert Morley
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. – Shelley
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honour of a critic. – Jean Sibelius
A critic is a legless man who teaches running. – Channing Pollock
The critic to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion. – H. L. Mencken
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, it they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other and have failed; therefore they turn critics. – S. T. Coleridge
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right. – Bernard M. Baruch
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. – Richard Le Gallienne
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. - Disraeli