Harold Rosenberg Quotes

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• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
• What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
• Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
• One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving…
• An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
• Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
• Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the…
• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a…
• The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political,…
• The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.
• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
• The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace…
• Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is…
• 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…
• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those…
• In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
• Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century,…

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