"The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition……" — Clement Greenberg
"The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved."
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24 Quotes by Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg has 24 quotes on this site.
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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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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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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads…
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it…
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
— Erma Bombeck
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true…
— Bono
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live…
— Les Brown
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any…
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
— Taylor Caldwell
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable…
— Samuel Alito
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When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got…
— Dick Cheney
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.
— Sparky Anderson
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