Abandoned Quote by Harold Rosenberg

History develops, art stands still.

— E. M. Forster

From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense.…

— Arnold Gehlen

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

— Oscar Wilde

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the…

— Paul Gauguin

“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming and all…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal of the…

— Christopher S. Wood

In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art...…

— Fredric Jameson

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in…

— Maurizio Cattelan