"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..."

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Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

Clement Greenberg

#Sacrifice Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Logic Quotes

“I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around.”
“My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.”
“I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.”

Source : Linda Greenlaw (2000). “The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey”, Hyperion
“Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.”
“Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.”

Source : "Ellsworth Kelly: schilderijen en beelden 1963-1979". Exhibition catalogue by Ellsworth Kelly, Barbara Rose, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 'Notes from 1969', 1979.
“I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.”

Source : Times Now Interview with Arnab Goswami, www.hindustantimes.com. January 28, 2014.
“New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.”

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