Leo Steinberg Citas

• 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.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Hate, Style

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• All art is infested by other art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Arte, el arte es

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• Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Lying, Effectiveness

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• 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.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Yesterday, Doe

  Leo Steinberg (1975). “Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ...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.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Mirrors, True Life

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• One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

  Leo Steinberg

  Misterioso

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• Una forma de hacer frente a las provocaciones del arte nuevo es mantenerse firme y mantener unos estándares sólidos... fijados por el gusto largamente practicado del crítico y por su convicción de que sólo serán significativas aquellas innovaciones que promuevan la dirección establecida del arte avanzado.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Long

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