Art Quote by George Jean Nathan

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in…

— John Dewey

The Function of Criticism is the display the understand of art and re-formation of taste, there is promoting by understand and enjoyment of art.

— Anonymous

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

— Virginia Woolf

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more,…

— Susan Sontag

“How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of "the modern" wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world,…

— Henry James

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

— Robert Breault

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs…

— Christopher Fry