"Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection."
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"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."
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"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression."
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"Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not."
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"What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?"
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"Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are."
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"Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition."
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"The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
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"Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!"
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"A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic."
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"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."
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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
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"The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing."
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"Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!"
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"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."
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"It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise."
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"Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever."
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"Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten."
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"Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer."
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"I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore."
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