The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
