| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30477 |
| QUOTATION: | 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | James Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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