Aim Quote by Susan Sontag

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 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

“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

“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

“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 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

Art is to look at not to criticize.

— Anonymous

“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

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

— Leslie Fiedler

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

“Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.”

— Alan Dapre

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