Quotes About Criticism

Chaque fois qu'on produit un effet, on se donne un ennemi. Il faut rester médiocre pour être populaire.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.      The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things

The world has cried out against us both, but it has always worshipped you.

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack.  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon.  Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.  Don't try it.  You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.  They do it so well in the daily papers. 

Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs.

there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England

It is perfectly monstrous, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Pero me es imposible no detestar a mi familia. Imagino que se debe a que nadie soporta a las personas que tienen sus mismos defectos.

My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The public is wonderfully tolerant; it forgives everything except genius. Life

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

There Is Only One Thing In The World Worse Than Being Talked About, And That Is Not Being Talked About. – Oscar Wilde

Sólo hay en el mundo una cosa peor que el que hablen de uno, y es que no hablen.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.

smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.