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Quotes about critics and criticis
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. (Difranco Ani)
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. (Difranco Ani)
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. (Difranco Ani)
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. (Difranco Ani)
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Criticism should be a casual conversation. (Difranco Ani)
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. (Difranco Ani)
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. (Difranco Ani)
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. (Difranco Ani)
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. (Difranco Ani)
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. (Difranco Ani)
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. (Difranco Ani)
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. (Difranco Ani)
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. (Difranco Ani)
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. (Difranco Ani)
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. (Difranco Ani)
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. (Difranco Ani)
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. (Difranco Ani)
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. (Difranco Ani)
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. (Difranco Ani)
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all. (Difranco Ani)
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. (Difranco Ani)
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. (Difranco Ani)
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. (Difranco Ani)
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. (Difranco Ani)
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