Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share
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
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share
Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share
