--- title: "4 Barney Rosset Quotes - Famous War photographer (Rosset)" description: "Barnet Lee \"Barney\" Rosset, Jr. was a pioneering American book and magazine publisher. Browse 4 Barney Rosset quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barney-rosset-16458.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Barney Rosset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barney-rosset-16458.jpg) # Barney Rosset (1922–2012) War Photographer **4** quotes in **56** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Barney Rosset was a war photographer, best known for *Rosset*. ## Quick Facts About Barney Rosset Born May 28, 1922 Died February 21, 2012 Profession War Photographer Notable works Rosset ## About Barney Rosset Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. was a pioneering American book and magazine publisher. An avant-garde taste maker, he purchased Grove Press in 1951, and founded Evergreen Review in 1957, both of which gave him platforms for curating world-class and, in several cases, Nobel prize-winning work by authors including Samuel Beckett (1969), Pablo Neruda (1971), Octavio Paz (1990), Kenzaburō Ōe (1994) and Harold Pinter (2005). ## Quotes by Barney Rosset > [Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-rosset/opens-up-a-whole-new-view-of-beckett-the-strong-mutual-attraction/) [Barney Rosset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-rosset/) [Attraction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attraction/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f85/barney-rosset-72205_attraction_opens-up-a-whole-new-view-of-beckett-the_470925.jpg) > [If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-rosset/if-you-have-freedom-of-speech-you-have-freedom-of-speech/) [Barney Rosset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-rosset/) [Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbc/barney-rosset-72205_communication_if-you-have-freedom-of-speech-you-have-f_1091264.jpg) > [We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-rosset/we-thought-a-magazine-even-a-self-proclaimed-literary-review-had-to/) [Barney Rosset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-rosset/) [Balls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/balls/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/barney-rosset-72205_balls_we-thought-a-magazine-even-a-self-procla_1306613.jpg) > [Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-rosset/waiting-for-godot-was-not-allowed-neither-was-henry-miller-the/) [Barney Rosset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-rosset/) [American culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-culture/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f4/barney-rosset-72205_american-culture_waiting-for-godot-was-not-allowed-neithe_2057504.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-rosset/#itemlist", "name": "Barney Rosset Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. 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