Famous quotes containing the word criticized:
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, after all, everybody’s wish.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)