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Leo Steinberg, an influential American art critic, was born on July 9, 1920, and passed away on March 13, 2011. He is renowned for his profound insights and unique perspectives in the field of art criticism.

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Famous Leo Steinberg Quotes

“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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Author:Leo Steinberg

“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.”

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Book:Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

Source: Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

“One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.”

Mysterious

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“All art is infested by other art.”

Art Art Is

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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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Author:Leo Steinberg

About the Author

Born: July 9, 1920
Died: March 13, 2011
Known for: Art critic
Quotes: 7

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