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
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern… — 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… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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… — 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
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
