"Criticism not only makes my pleasure more intense and more lucid but obliges me to change my attitude toward the work. It is no longer an object, a thing, something that I accept or reject and on which, with no risk to myself, I pass sentence. The work forms part of me, and to judge it is to judge myself. My contemplation has ceased to be passive."
Octavio Paz, Essays on Mexican Art
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