To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry James (1843–1916), U.S. author. What Maisie Knew, preface (1897).
The Preface first appeared in the New York Edition of James’s work (1907-1909) and was later republished in The Art of the Novel, ed. R.P. Blackmur (1934).
