Walter Benjamin Quote

The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.


p. 161 - The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism (1919)


The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by...

The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by...

The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by...

The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by...