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Harold Rosenberg - From the Artists category:
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 it with his own history. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Artists category:
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Creativity category:
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Critics category:
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Education category:
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Fame category:
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Future category:
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality... (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Invention category:
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Modernism category:
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Money category:
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it? (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Morality category:
Advanced art today is no longer a cause - it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Performance category:
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act – rather than a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze or 'express' an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Politics category:
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 revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Problems category:
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Recognition category:
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Shock category:
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Standards category:
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 that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Tradition category:
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. (Harold Rosenberg)
Harold Rosenberg - From the Worth category:
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. (Harold Rosenberg)
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