Editing Critic (section)

== Critics' views of criticism ==

[[Cultural critic]] [[Clement Greenberg]] wrote that a good critic excels through "insights into the evidence&nbsp;... and by&nbsp;... loyalty to the relevant"; poet and critic [[T. S. Eliot|T.S. Eliot]] wrote "a critic must have a very highly developed sense of [[fact]]".<ref>{{Cite book|title = Art and Culture – Critical Essays|last = Greenberg|first = Clement|publisher = Beacon Press|year = 1961|location = Boston|page = 239|chapter = T.S. Eliot: A Book Review}}</ref>

In 1971, [[Harold C. Schonberg]], chief music critic of ''[[The New York Times]]'' from 1960 to 1980, said that he wrote for himself, "not necessarily for readers, not for musicians.&nbsp;... It's not a critic's job to be right or wrong; it's his job to express an opinion in readable English."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/nyregion/harold-c-schonberg-87-dies-won-pulitzer-prize-as-music-critic-for-the-times.html|title=Harold C. Schonberg, 87, Dies; Won Pulitzer Prize as Music Critic for ''The Times''|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|date=2003-07-27|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-28|archive-date=April 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421083208/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/nyregion/harold-c-schonberg-87-dies-won-pulitzer-prize-as-music-critic-for-the-times.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Schonberg was the first music critic to receive the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for criticism.

[[Daniel Mendelsohn]] described the equation of criticism for critics as [[knowledge]] + [[Taste (sociology)|taste]] = meaningful [[judgement]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-critics-manifesto|title=A Critic's Manifesto|last=Mendelsohn|first=Daniel|date=2012-08-28|newspaper=The New Yorker|issn=0028-792X|access-date=2016-03-27|archive-date=March 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314160619/http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-critics-manifesto|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/everyones-a-critic-1455147994|title=Everyone's a Critic|last=Spiegelman|first=Willard|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-03-27|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116193334/http://www.wsj.com/articles/everyones-a-critic-1455147994|url-status=live}}</ref>

Restaurant critic Terry Durack explained that from a critic "you hope for a thorough, objective and legitimate discussion" that puts "opera, art or book into context, so that it adds to your own body of knowledge"; in the context of a restaurant criticism, this means it is "not about me liking it or not; it's about me helping you decide whether you are going to like it or not."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/the-role-of-a-restaurant-critic-in-the-digital-age-20161201-gt1ndf.html|title=The role of a restaurant critic in the digital age|last=Durack|first=Terry|date=3 December 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=5 December 2016|archive-date=December 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207010656/http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/the-role-of-a-restaurant-critic-in-the-digital-age-20161201-gt1ndf.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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[[Robert Hughes (critic)]] on (artist) [[Mark Rothko]]<ref name="Craven">{{cite news|last1=Craven|first1=Peter|title=The Spectacle of Skill review: The genius of Robert Hughes as critic and writer|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-spectacle-of-skill-review-the-genius-of-robert-hughes-as-critic-and-writer-20151214-glmyct.html|access-date=29 March 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=16 December 2015|archive-date=September 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923091625/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-spectacle-of-skill-review-the-genius-of-robert-hughes-as-critic-and-writer-20151214-glmyct.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
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