Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. Harold Rosenberg More Quotes by Harold Rosenberg More Quotes From Harold Rosenberg A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. Harold Rosenberg painterprestigefame 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 creativedoeart Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Harold Rosenberg engagementcreatingself 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. Harold Rosenberg starschangepast Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon). Harold Rosenberg struggleselfnumbers The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. Harold Rosenberg individualconservativepractice Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. Harold Rosenberg permanenceaddictionrevolution 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. Harold Rosenberg metamorphosisstoriesamerica Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio. Harold Rosenberg finalsmindart Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century. Harold Rosenberg hymnsamericaart Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by. Harold Rosenberg solutionsneighborhoodproblem How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members. Harold Rosenberg movementcharacterart The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work. Harold Rosenberg skillsartistmean Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other. Harold Rosenberg artistidentityart 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 curatorrecognitionreputation Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Harold Rosenberg subversionbelieveart 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 labyrinthexitart Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. Harold Rosenberg paradoxtraditionart Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. Harold Rosenberg historicalphilosophyart In reality, however, an artist is a product of art Harold Rosenberg artistrealityart
