Art Criticism Quotes by Clement Greenberg

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• Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is…
• All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
• 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…
• Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one…
• It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The…
• The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.
• Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.
• The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and…
• The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
• The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present…
• Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…
• The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction…

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