T. J. Clark quotes

T. J. Clark quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.”
-- T. J. Clark

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“If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.”
-- T. J. Clark

#People Quotes #Satan Quotes #Proletariat Quotes
“The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.”
-- T. J. Clark

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