Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated — it is an art.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated — it is an art.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated — it is an art.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated — it is an art.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated — it is an art.