Art Quote 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…

— Leo Steinberg

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and…

— Robert Genn

Critics are already made.

— Lord Byron

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

— Terry Teachout

“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to…

— C.S. Lewis

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he…

— Lionel Trilling

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of "the modern" wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which…

— Jonathan Swift

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances…

— Paul Di Filippo

“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library…

— Théophile Gautier