"The superior artist is the one who knows……" — Clement Greenberg

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

— Clement Greenberg

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24 Quotes by Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a…
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have…
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also…
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or…
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak…
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep…
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin,…
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge…
If you want to change your art, change your habits.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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