"If you want to change your art, change…" — Clement Greenberg
"If you want to change your art, change your habits."
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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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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…
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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