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Criticism Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.”
Camille Paglia
2.
“I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions – which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.”
Camille Paglia
3.
“I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes.”
Camille Paglia
4.
“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”
Camille Paglia
5.
“Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”
Camille Paglia
6.
“There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.”
Camille Paglia
7.
“Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.”
Camille Paglia
8.
“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.”
Camille Paglia
9.
“Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.”
Camille Paglia
10.
“I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.”
Camille Paglia
11.
“As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.”
Camille Paglia
12.
“Overconcentration on any one point is distortion.”
Camille Paglia
13.
“A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.”
Camille Paglia
14.
“The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.”
Camille Paglia
15.
“Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.”
Camille Paglia
16.
“Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.”
Camille Paglia
17.
“It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.”
Camille Paglia
18.
“Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.”
Camille Paglia
19.
“You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.”
John D. Rockefeller
20.
“Not many people agree with what I do.”
Guy Kawasaki
21.
“Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.”
Guy Kawasaki
22.
“I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.”
Charles Lamb
23.
“Books which are no books.”
Charles Lamb
24.
“Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”
Margaret Fuller
25.
“The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.”
Margaret Fuller
26.
“Your feedback should help people win. Else it is just criticism.”
Ankur Warikoo
27.
“The most pitiful response to any sort of criticism is anger.”
Ankur Warikoo
28.
“Ignore the critics. Not the criticism.”
Ankur Warikoo
29.
“Take criticism seriously. But not personally.”
Ankur Warikoo
30.
“All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult.”
Sam Walton
31.
“Be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.”
Sam Walton
32.
“Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.”
Jimmy Carter
33.
“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”
Alvin Toffler
34.
“By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.”
Alvin Toffler
35.
“If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.”
V.S. Naipaul
36.
“In England people are very proud of being very stupid.”
V.S. Naipaul
37.
“My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.”
V.S. Naipaul
38.
“Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.”
Jack Ma
39.
“They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
40.
“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.”
Plutarch
41.
“Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.”
Plutarch
42.
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
Plutarch
43.
“It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.”
Scott Adams
44.
“As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.”
Scott Adams
45.
“Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!”
Leonard Cohen
46.
“When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
47.
“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
Anton Chekhov
48.
“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
Anton Chekhov
49.
“If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter.”
Anton Chekhov
50.
“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
Anton Chekhov
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