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> [The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/the-superior-artist-is-the-one-who-knows-how-to-be-influenced/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

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## More by Clement Greenberg

> [The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/the-avant-garde-poet-or-artist-tries-in-effect-to-imitate-god-by/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/the-peasant-finds-no-natural-urgency-within-himself-that-will-drive/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/the-paradox-in-the-evolution-of-french-painting-from-courbet-to/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/it-has-become-apparent-that-art-can-have-a-startling-impact-without/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/art-is-a-matter-strictly-of-experience-not-of-principles-and-what/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/photography-is-the-most-transparent-of-the-art-mediums-devised-or/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/where-picasso-paints-cause-repin-paints-effect-repin-predigests-art/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/for-every-good-art-critic-there-may-be-ten-great-artists/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/the-superior-artist-is-the-one-who-knows-how-to-be-influenced/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/a-large-picture-can-give-us-images-of-things-but-a-relatively-small/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/the-reality-of-art-is-disclosed-only-in-experience-not-in-reflection/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/you-like-it-that-s-all-whether-it-s-a-landscape-or-abstract-you-like/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/once-efficiency-is-universally-accepted-as-a-rule-it-becomes-an-inner/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/nothing-could-be-further-from-the-authentic-art-of-our-time-than-the/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

> [The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clement-greenberg/the-dissolution-of-the-pictorial-into-sheer-texture-into-apparently/)

[Clement Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clement-greenberg/)

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