Quotes about Critique
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
- Washington Allston
The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.
- Shane Claiborne
I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.
- Tony Campolo
The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two Books; and Professor I. A. Richards wrote a serious treatise entitled How to Read a Page.
- Mortimer Adler
Golf is typical capitalist lunacy
- George Bernard Shaw
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
- Laurence Sterne
You may not know it, Mr. Earthbound, but the best way to advertise an idea is by attacking it.
- Napoleon Hill
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
- Thomas Paine
Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.
- Candace Bushnell
While the style of the critique may vary with the character of the critic, overly polite criticism benefits neither the proponents of new ideas nor the scientific enterprise.
- Carl Sagan
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
- Thomas Merton