Appraise Quote by 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

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

— Susan Sontag

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 art of appraising others at one's own value.

— George Jean Nathan

“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

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps…

— George Jean Nathan

“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

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of,…

— George Steiner

“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

“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

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.

— Paul Emsley

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