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Critics Quotes by Leo Steinberg
- 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…
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- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation… — James A. Baldwin
- I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and… — Charles Barkley
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they… — Henry Ward Beecher