Patrick Swift Quote

Perhaps this is the great weakness of all criticism, that it tends to take facts derived from the examination of unimportant works and applies them in making a judgement about a man whose whole importance rests in the successful work, where these facts do not exist.

Some Notes on Caravaggio (1956)

Perhaps this is the great weakness of all criticism, that it tends to take facts derived from the examination of unimportant works and applies them...

Perhaps this is the great weakness of all criticism, that it tends to take facts derived from the examination of unimportant works and applies them...

Perhaps this is the great weakness of all criticism, that it tends to take facts derived from the examination of unimportant works and applies them...

Perhaps this is the great weakness of all criticism, that it tends to take facts derived from the examination of unimportant works and applies them...