It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.