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“Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.”

Quote by Tony Bennett

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Tony Bennett, born on August 3, 1926, is a renowned American painter. His works are known for their unique style and profound use of color, which have won the admiration of both the art world and the public. more

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“The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”

Enough Culture Tradition Difficulty Crisis Leisure Carrying On

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.”

Enough Sin Accepted Efficient Virtuous Efficiency Compulsion

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.”

Effort Greater Painting Evolution Appearance Visuals Paradox Abstraction Fidelity Verge Cezanne

Author:Clement Greenberg

“If you want to change your art, change your habits.”

Ifs Want Art Habit

Author:Clement Greenberg

“I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.”

Ifs Art Numbers Habit Studios Jargon

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“Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.”

Art Can Do Successful Sacrifice Effects Essentials Triumph Poetry Is Verses Explicit

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

Art Used Attention Mediums Realistic Modernism

Book:The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969

Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969

“I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.”

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“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.”

Rooms Sacrifice Logic Pity Modernism Decoration

Book:Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

Source: Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

“A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.”

Giving Eye Nature Views Unity Glances Instantaneous

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays