"Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail."

Criticism, Insults

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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Criticism, Love, Perception

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Criticism, Democracy, Variety

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Criticism, Ridicule

"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Criticism, Media, Truth, Malice, Proof

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Jim Bishop, American Journalist

Criticism, Writer

"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."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Criticism, Observation, World, Worth

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, America, Disaster, Night, World

"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Criticism, Poetry, Quality, Humor

"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Evangelism, Force, Culture, Critique

"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Criticism, Catholicism

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"The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted."

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

"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."

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."

"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."

"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."

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"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."

"I need to work to feel well."

"I would kiss you, had I the courage."

"This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man."

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."

"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real."

"The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted."

"There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug."

"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."

"Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity."