Harold Rosenberg Quotes

• As we have seen Modern Art does not have to be actually new; it only has to be new to somebody-to the last lady who found out about the driftwood.

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

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• 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 space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or ‘express’ an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

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

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• What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

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• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

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

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• 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 who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

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• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

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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.

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• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

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Harold Rosenberg (14)

Birth:	2nd February, 1906
Death:	11th July, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Professor, Writer

About

Harold Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an American writer, philosopher and art critic. He is best known for his art criticism. Beginning in the early 1960s he became art Critic for the New Yorker magazine. He studied at City College of New York. He received a law degree from St. Lawrence College in 1927. He was professor of social thought in the art department of the University of Chicago. He wrote several books include: The tradition of the new, The anxious object, Artworks and Packages, Act and the actor, The De-Definition of Art, Art on the edge, and Arshile Gorky.

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