Quotes from Russell Lynes

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.