Amitava Kumar Quotes

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

If you judge, investigate.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

If you would judge, understand.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

I believe in criticism.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

I know all the critics.

I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

To think critically is always to be hostile.