The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not. — 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
