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

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Source : Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1995). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969”, p.86, University of Chicago Press

Clement Greenberg

#Art Quotes #Attention Quotes #Realistic Quotes

“If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.”
“For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.”
“This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.”
“The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.”

Source : Sharon Gannon, David Life (2014). “Yoga Assists: A Complete Visual and Inspirational Guide to Yoga Asana Assists”, p.3, Open Road Media
“There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.”
“How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.”

Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 229), 1896.
“I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.”
“There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there was a necessity for a little bit of screaming and shouting just to get it into the conversation.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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