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One Quotes by Clement Greenberg
- Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which…
- Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one of the most…
- The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.
- 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…
- I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one…
- Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part…
- 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 view…
- One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare...
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