Alan Jay Lerner Quotes, Criticism Quotes, Theatre Quotes

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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