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A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

Northrop Frye
Criticism, Doe, May
Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.89, Princeton University Press

A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

Northrop Frye
Art, Memories, Criticism
Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.4, Princeton University Press

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Northrop Frye
Men, Criticism, Literature
1963 The Educated Imagination,'The Keys of Dreamland'.

Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

Northrop Frye
Art, Criticism, Body
Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

Northrop Frye
Art, What If, Criticism
Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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