Top 97 Quotes by Terry Teachout

About Terry Teachout

These are some quotes by American author Terry Teachout Critic, who was born on February 6, 1956.

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

Terry Teachout

I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.

I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.

Terry Teachout

Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.

Terry Teachout

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Terry Teachout

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

Terry Teachout

Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.

Terry Teachout

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Terry Teachout

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

Terry Teachout

I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.

I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.

Terry Teachout

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

Terry Teachout

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