Life Quote by Charles Baudelaire

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from…

— Charles Baudelaire

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

“The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to…

— Susan Sontag

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side…

— Anonymous

“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

— Susan Sontag

“Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are non-coercive knowledge…

— Edward W. Said

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to…

— Urjit Patel

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought…

— Matthew Arnold