The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a… — 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 Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is… — 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 Image
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 Image
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. — 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 values but… — 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 its premises… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
