"The critic an artist."

In the piece, "The critic as Artist," speaks of how art is viewed to an audience. Gilbert and Ernest have a conversation on ethical, culture, and form effect of art. Is a critic really an artist?

Gilbert interestingly says how, "we have art treated, not from the moral, but from the purely aesthetic point of view." They both compare philosopher from generation to generation of unity, appearance, and the relation of fact or fiction.

Another point Gilbert makes is, "the longer one studies life and literature, the more strongly one feels the behind everything that is wonderful stands the individuals and that it is not the moment that makes the man but the man who creates the age."

The importance on unity, tone, and harmony in all different areas of art has an affect on an audience. "Criticism is no more to be judges by any low standard of imitation or resemblance than is the work or poet or sculptor." Gilbert is trying to prove that it takes knowledge and reaction to review art and in his way critic as an art. He proves his point time and time again. We get it.