"Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is,……" — Clement Greenberg
"Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself."
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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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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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