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Quotes about critics and criticis
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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. (Difranco Ani)
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. (Difranco Ani)
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. (Difranco Ani)
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. (Difranco Ani)
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. (Difranco Ani)
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being. (Difranco Ani)
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. (Difranco Ani)
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. (Difranco Ani)
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. (Difranco Ani)
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. (Difranco Ani)
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. (Difranco Ani)
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door. (Difranco Ani)
People who ask for your criticism want only praise. (Difranco Ani)
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you. (Difranco Ani)
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. (Difranco Ani)
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. (Difranco Ani)
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! (Difranco Ani)
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule. (Difranco Ani)
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men. (Difranco Ani)
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. (Difranco Ani)
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. (Difranco Ani)
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. (Difranco Ani)
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. (Difranco Ani)
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. (Difranco Ani)
We are suffering from too much sarcasm. (Difranco Ani)
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