“The critic will certainly be an
interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose shallow
secret may be guessed and revealed by one whose feet are wounded and who knows
not his name. Rather, he will look upon Art as a goddess whose mystery it is
his province to intensify, and whose majesty his privilege to make more
marvellous in the eyes of men.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist