When you don't like something the words come more readily.
- Clement Greenberg
More Quotes By Clement Greenberg
- Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created...
- Complete honesty has nothing to do with ‘purity’ or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and...
- The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is...
- Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut...
- All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
- If you want to change your art, change your habits.
- Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for...
- The peasant finds no “natural” urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all...
- Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art...
- Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention...
- You like it, that’s all, whether it’s a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You...
- A poor life is lived by any one who doesn’t regularly take time out to stand and gaze,...
- Decoration is asked to be ‘merely’ pleasing, ‘merely’ embellishing, and the ‘functional’ logic of Modernism leaves no room,...
- The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems...
- The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
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