“When I look at a painting for the first time, I never ask myself whether or not it is a good painting or even whether or not I like it. It is almost painful for me to answer the question: ‘What do you think of it?’ Thinking of it impedes my seeing it.”
Harold Clurman, “A Month in the Arts” (Tomorrow, Jan. 1948, reprinted in The Collected Works of Harold Clurman)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
