"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."

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Source : Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.157, Beacon Press

Clement Greenberg

#Profound Quotes #Texture Quotes #Answers Quotes

“You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!”
“When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.”
“The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .”
“The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.”
“A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.”
“Weâ€™re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesnâ€™t count. Itâ€™s when you want so badly to do something wrongâ€”when youâ€™re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighborâ€™s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible troubleâ€”thatâ€™s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldnâ€™t wave it until youâ€™re about to put it to the test.”
“I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.”
“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.”

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