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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.”

Way Long Art Novel Taste Standards Art Is Innovation Critics Conviction Significant One Way Firm Provocation Standards 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.”

Doe Art Made Today Novel Ready Taste Assuming Critics Yesterday Manifestation Reserves Criteria

Book:Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

Source: Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art

“Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.”

Thinking Men Doe Sometimes Eye Force Taste Regard Notes Critics Destroyed Sickness Honey Inferiors Sour Diseased

Author:Saint Basil

“Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.”

Giving Play Taste Give Me Critics Dull Dressings

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.”

Together Taste Critics Bundles

Author:Whitney Balliett

“To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.”

Ifs Men Feelings Would Be Genius Taste Mere Critics

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.”

Littles Book Taste Critics Sarcasm Reviews Publishing Reproach

Author:Winifred Holtby

“Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.”

Together Reader Taste Prejudice Intelligent Critics Biased Bundles

Book:Dinosaurs in the Morning: Forty-One Pieces on Jazz

Source: Dinosaurs in the Morning: Forty-One Pieces on Jazz

“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”

Ifs Pain Together Three Found Results Quality Taste Judgment Criticism Critics Depth Good Sense Pedants Pedantry Taste And Judgment

Author:Horace Walpole

“Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.”

Writing Persons Art Different Use Records Taste Judgment Critics Internals Length Sentiments Disagree

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.”

Art Term Youth Painting Masters Lovers Taste Abuse Critics Offensive Good Taste Insipid Renowned Art Lovers

Book:The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art

Source: The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art

“More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.”

People Needs Feelings Natural Rocks Taste Critics Starting Critique Convoluted Natural Feelings

Author:Justin Vernon

“The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.”

Ifs Men Writing Kind Different Term Views Common Watches Discipline Taste Office Critics Boxes Critique Common Man Box Office Reviewers

Author:Ang Lee

“Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.”

Book Effort Taste Critics Despite Inherent Best Effort

Author:Alain de Botton

“Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.”

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