"It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not."

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

Clement Greenberg

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“Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”
“Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.”
“I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.”
“In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.”
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.”
“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”
“I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.”

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