Leo Steinberg quotes
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“If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.”
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“Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.”
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“...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.”
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“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”
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“The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.”
-- Leo SteinbergSource : Leo Steinberg (1975). “Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.”
-- Leo Steinberg
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“Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.”
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“Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...”
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
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