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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.” WayLongArtNovelTasteStandardsArt IsInnovationCriticsConvictionSignificantOne WayFirmProvocationStandards Set 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.” DoeArtMadeTodayNovelReadyTasteAssumingCriticsYesterdayManifestationReservesCriteria 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 Author:Leo Steinberg
“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.” IfsArtHateStyleWorks Of ArtGood Work Author:Leo Steinberg
“Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.” ArtLyingArt IsChiefsEffectiveness Author:Leo Steinberg
“...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.” ShouldArtSeemsRiskProudMirrorsOriginalsContemporarySupposed To BeBe ProudTrue LifePredicamentsContemporary Art Author:Leo Steinberg