"All profoundly original art looks ugly at first." — Clement Greenberg
"All profoundly original art looks ugly at first."
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Clement Greenberg
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24 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…
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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…
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Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also…
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It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or…
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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…
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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…
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Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin,…
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The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge…
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If you want to change your art, change your habits.
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