A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any f…

- Clement Greenberg

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

- Clement Greenberg

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or pain…

- Clement Greenberg

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go…

- Clement Greenberg

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and ans…

- Clement Greenberg

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

- Clement Greenberg

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

- Clement Greenberg

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

- Clement Greenberg

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

- Clement Greenberg