Leo Steinberg Quotes
- All art is infested by other art.
- 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.
- Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.
- ...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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.