Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.
Clement GreenbergI myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
Clement GreenbergThe reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
Clement GreenbergThe precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience
Clement Greenberg