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Clement Greenberg has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
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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…
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Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one…
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It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The…
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The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.
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Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.
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The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and…
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The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
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The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present…
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Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…
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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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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
— Julian Casablancas
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Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.
— Wilhelm Stekel
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
— George Santayana
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For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the…
— Billy Graham
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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that,…
— Quentin Crisp
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Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.
— Sebastian Vettel
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I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have…
— Chip Kidd
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Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of…
— Linda S. Reeves
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An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other…
— John Cage
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
— Napoleon Hill
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