Criticism Quote by Samuel Johnson

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“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

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which…

— Jonathan Swift

Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a…

— Jacques Barzun

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

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

“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 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

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