Aesthetics/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words aesthetics and/or criticism:

“Nothing is beautiful, except man alone: all aesthetics rests upon this naïveté, which is its first truth. Let us immediately add the second: nothing is ugly except the degenerating man—and with this the realm of aesthetic judgment is circumscribed.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)