America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. — 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
