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Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
— Harold Rosenberg
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
— Harold Rosenberg
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
— Harold Rosenberg
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
— Harold Rosenberg
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which ... can be dispensed with.
— Harold Rosenberg
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
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
— Harold Rosenberg
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
— Harold Rosenberg
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
— Harold Rosenberg
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
— Harold Rosenberg
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
— Harold Rosenberg
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
— Harold Rosenberg
Cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event
— Harold Rosenberg
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.
— Harold Rosenberg
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
— George Santayana
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
— Harold Rosenberg
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
— Harold Rosenberg
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
— Harold Rosenberg
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
— William Feather
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
— Harold Rosenberg
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
— Harold Rosenberg
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
— Marcus Aurelius
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
— Harold Rosenberg
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
— Harold Rosenberg
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
— Harold Rosenberg
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.
— Reggie Jackson
Strength without agility is a mere mass.
— Fernando Pessoa
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
— Harold Rosenberg
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
— Walter Lippmann