Art Quote by Harold Rosenberg

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

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

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

— Harold Rosenberg

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

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

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

— Harold Rosenberg

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

— Harold Rosenberg

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

— Harold Rosenberg

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

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

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the…

— Harold Rosenberg