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Clement Greenberg Quotes

Complete honesty has nothing to do with ‘purity’ or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart Picture Quote #1

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art Picture Quote #1

It’s as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on ‘absolute’ or ‘autonomous’ art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not Picture Quote #1

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 painting-forces your eye Picture Quote #1

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art Picture Quote #1

When you don’t like something the words come more readily Picture Quote #1

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For every good art critic there may be ten great artists Picture Quote #1

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced Picture Quote #1

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare Picture Quote #1

If you want to change your art, change your habits Picture Quote #1

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art Picture Quote #1

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first Picture Quote #1

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Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating Picture Quote #1

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; modernism used art to call attention to art Picture Quote #1

Complete honesty has nothing to do with purity or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility Picture Quote #1

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Complete honesty has nothing to do with ‘purity’ or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart. (Clement Greenberg Quotes) I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art. (Clement Greenberg Quotes) It’s as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on ‘absolute’ or ‘autonomous’ art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not (Clement Greenberg Quotes) 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 painting-forces your eye (Clement Greenberg Quotes) I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art (Clement Greenberg Quotes) When you don’t like something the words come more readily (Clement Greenberg Quotes) For every good art critic there may be ten great artists (Clement Greenberg Quotes) The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced (Clement Greenberg Quotes) One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare (Clement Greenberg Quotes) If you want to change your art, change your habits (Clement Greenberg Quotes) Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art (Clement Greenberg Quotes) All profoundly original art looks ugly at first (Clement Greenberg Quotes) Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating (Clement Greenberg Quotes) Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; modernism used art to call attention to art (Clement Greenberg Quotes) Complete honesty has nothing to do with purity or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart (Clement Greenberg Quotes) 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 (Clement Greenberg Quotes) The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility (Clement Greenberg Quotes)