Abstract Quote by Walter Pater

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

— Oscar Wilde

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Not the critic.

— Anonymous

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

— Peter Schjeldahl

“Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom…

— Jen Wang

But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the…

— David Hume

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing more than earnest, loving,…

— Anonymous

“Beauty is an influence based off of judgment.”

— Alyssa Keller

“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as…

— Richard L. McGuire

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can…

— Oscar Wilde

The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and…

— John Ruskin