When you don't like something the words come more readily.
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
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
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
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…
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. - Clement Greenberg
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
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 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…
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
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and ans…
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience. - Clement Greenberg
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
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
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.
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. - Clement Greenberg
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
When you don't like something the words come more readily. - Clement Greenberg
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