Art Quote by Clement Greenberg

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

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

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

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

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

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

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

— Clement Greenberg

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

— Clement Greenberg

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

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

— Clement Greenberg

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

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one…

— Clement Greenberg