Quotes About Criticism

I don't care much for Hillary Clinton.

The liberals love you until you say something critical about Hillary Clinton.

When I started doing Hindi films, I did not know much about fashion. I got to know about it when people criticised my fashion sense.

Why you no good, scruffy looking, nerf herder!

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

One does not say that a book 'ought not to have been published' merely because it is a bad book. After all, acres of rubbish are printed daily and no one bothers.

I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists, I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table-manners.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be "This book is worthless", while the truth about the reviewer's own reaction would probably be "This book does not interest me in any way, and I would not write about it unless I were paid to.

As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.

Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody. Naturally this makes one wonder whether after all there was something unreal in his attack upon society.

Rudyard Kipling was the only popular writer of this century who was not at the same time a thoroughly bad writer.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)

El ataque directo y consciente contra la honradez intelectual procede de los propios intelectuales.

Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody.

Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and æsthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly.

Bu kapitalist bir sava? ve Britanya emperyalizmi ya?ma u?runa sava??yor diye s?zlanan solcular?n kafas? geriye bakacak ?ekilde vidalanm??.

Tal como acontece com a religião cristã, a pior propaganda para o socialismo são seus adeptos.

Meaningless words. In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking' in meaning.2 Words like romantic, plastic, values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality, as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless, in the sense that they not only do not point to any discoverable object, but are hardly even expected to do so by the reader.

For her, finally, the literary art is an instrument of social salvation—it is her means of touching the world with her ideals, her love, her aspiration; for him the literary art is the avenue of escape from the meaningless chaos of existence—it is his subtly critical condemnation of the world.

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.

Criticism is not some inscrutable, mysterious process. It's just a matter of: (1) noticing ourselves responding to a work of art, moment by moment, and (2) getting better at articulating that response.

Probably someday some guy representing me will be in there, and some punk who I'm precursor of will be hooting at me, asking why my shoes were made out of dead cows and so forth? Because in that future time, wearing dead sking on your feet, no, they won't do that. That will seem to them like barbarity