Leo Steinberg Quotes

#1. I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

Helen Vendler

#2. Make today worth remembering.

Zig Ziglar

#3. All art is infested by other art.

Leo Steinberg

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

Leo Steinberg

#5. The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#6. 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.

Leo Steinberg

#7. There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

John Glenn

#8. 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

#9. Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

Snoop Dogg

#10. 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

#11. No, silly girl," he muttered against my shoulder. "I'm trying to protect yours. And you're making it shockingly difficult." "Of

Stephenie Meyer

#12. 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

#13. It was a lot to hope for, but Holden was an unapologetic optimist. Give people the information they need. Trust them to do the right thing. He didn't know any other way to play it. Or

James S.A. Corey

#14. Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Hayao Miyazaki

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

Leo Steinberg

#16. When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't form by a certain age, they're not going to.

Ron Currie Jr.

#17. Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

Kenneth Rogoff

#18. At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

Willie Nelson