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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt r

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt read it the way you read history or science. – Leslie Fiedler

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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. – Leslie Fiedler

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My assignment is what every writers assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. – Leslie Fiedler

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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. – Leslie Fiedler

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To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously. – Jerry Saltz

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

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Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. – Jerry Saltz

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Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

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