Formulas Quote by Clement Greenberg Download Open image “Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.” — Clement Greenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Formulas Kitsch
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition — Robert C. Solomon 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
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think social networks are really working for the drivers, because we're able to talk directly to fans and they get first-hand information. And… — Jenson Button Copy Share Image
There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest -… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes… — Usher Copy Share Image
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
