Quote by Susan Sontag

“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

“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose…

— Rodolfo Costa

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 addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.”

— Jordan Carl Curtis

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

“All Criticism is Good Criticism. Learn from it.”

— Jamilia Fair

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

— Aristotle

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 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