tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064353933668888339.post5376505826648315720..comments2024-03-13T00:11:38.615-04:00Comments on Art in the Studio: Questions Asked and AnsweredNancy Natalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325421420384484035noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064353933668888339.post-79545731504726115752009-04-11T23:15:00.000-04:002009-04-11T23:15:00.000-04:00Besides the reportage of his interview with Clemen...Besides the reportage of his interview with Clement Greenberg on January 9, 1986, Breslin gives some quotes by Greenberg, as follows:<BR/>"To be an artist is to be pompous," he said. "He was fond of the phrase 'as stupid as a painter', and freuently lamented that 'all artists are bores.'" Rothko was a "clinical paranoid...pompous and dumb," Gottlieb "a pantspresser," Kline "a bore," Still "pretentious," Newman "boring," and deKooning "tedious beyond belief" from Naifeh and Smith, JACKSON POLLOCK, AN AMERICAN SAGA, p. 632. - Sure sounds pompous to me.Nancy Natalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03325421420384484035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064353933668888339.post-6175626675347664072009-04-11T15:48:00.000-04:002009-04-11T15:48:00.000-04:00"...enduringly pompous Clement Greenberg..."? Mus..."...enduringly pompous Clement Greenberg..."? Must not have met him. Clem was anything but.Russell Binghamnoreply@blogger.com