The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience. — Clement Greenberg
It’s as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating — Clement Greenberg
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, — Clement Greenberg
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. — Clement Greenberg
Decoration is asked to be ‘merely’ pleasing, ‘merely’ embellishing, and the ‘functional’ — Clement Greenberg
