Harold Rosenberg Inspirational Quotes (30)

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

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.

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.

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.

Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.