I don't of course fall into the category of critic described below, but all the same: Ouch!
The introduction to the exhibition catalogue had been written by a leading -- or major, or brilliant -- critic. Caro read out a sentence and asked, "What does it mean?"
Vail looked over her shoulder. "They come to think they've had something to do with painting the pictures."
--Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus, p. 191.
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