Quotes by Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view – the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

Eye

Nature

Views

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 further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.

Mind

Satisfaction

Smell

Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of ‘elevated’ writing I know of. It may also be one of the most challenging.. if only because so few people have done it well enough to be remembered.. but I’m not sure the challenge is worth it.

Art

People

Writing

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.

Art

Principles

Quality

Decoration is asked to be ‘merely’ pleasing, ‘merely’ embellishing, and the ‘functional’ logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such ‘mereness.’ This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.

Logic

Rooms

Sacrifice

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

Art

May

Very Good

I don’t get into ‘becauses.’ When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, ‘because,’ you get into art jargon.

Art

Jargon

Numbers

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Art

Habit

Want

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

Different

Levels

Light

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

Formulas

Kitsch

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Quotes by Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view – the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

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 further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.

Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of ‘elevated’ writing I know of. It may also be one of the most challenging.. if only because so few people have done it well enough to be remembered.. but I’m not sure the challenge is worth it.

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.

Decoration is asked to be ‘merely’ pleasing, ‘merely’ embellishing, and the ‘functional’ logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such ‘mereness.’ This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

I don’t get into ‘becauses.’ When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, ‘because,’ you get into art jargon.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

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