• Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

    Henry James: Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
    Henry James, John L. Sweeney (1956). “The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts”, p.10, Univ of Wisconsin Press