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Clement Greenberg Quotes: All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
         

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.


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Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.



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

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



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



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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.



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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.



The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.



When you don't like something the words come more readily.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.



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With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.



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