Quote by Leslie Fiedler
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

Other quotes by Leslie Fiedler

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

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Truth
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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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teacher
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When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. – Leslie Fiedler

Category:
Experience
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Art
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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Art

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Art

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and youll find it. Its there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

Its clever, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling

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Art

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