The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is -… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare... — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
