Art Quotes by Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

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

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.

Art

Principles

Quality

Clement Greenberg

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

Art

May

Very Good

Clement Greenberg

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

Clement Greenberg

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

Art

Habit

Want

Clement Greenberg

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.

Art

Sacrifice

Successful

Clement Greenberg

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

Art

Men

Photography

Clement Greenberg

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

Art

Attention

Realistic

Clement Greenberg

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial… The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.

Art

Historical

Photography

Clement Greenberg

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too “innocent,” that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

Art

Avant Garde

Views

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Art

Artist

Attention

Avant Garde

Cezanne

Creating

Cutting

Different

Effort

Evolution

Eye

Formulas

Habit

Historical

Influence

Jargon

Kitsch

Levels

Light

Like Something

Logic

May

Men

Mind

Natural

Nature

Numbers

People

Photography

Principles

Profound

Quality

Realistic

Reality

Reflection

Rooms

Sacrifice

Satisfaction

Sculpture

Smell

Strong Person

Successful

Texture

Travel

Trying

Very Good

Views

Want

Writing

Art Quotes by Clement Greenberg

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.

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.

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.

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

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

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial… The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too “innocent,” that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

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