). To criticize does not necessarily imply to find fault, but the word is often taken to mean the simple expression of an objection against prejudice
, or a disapproval.
Another meaning of criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature, social movements, film, arts, and similar objects and events.
I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he received at a certain hour.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donné: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.