Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Harold Rosenberg
Age: 72 †
Born: 1906
Born: February 2
Died: 1978
Died: July 11
Art Critic
Art Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Existing
Flurry
Recognition
Curator
Combination
Buyer
Reputation
Depended
Critics
Buyers
Produce
Dealer
Momentary
Critic
More quotes by Harold Rosenberg
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Harold Rosenberg
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.
Harold Rosenberg
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
Harold Rosenberg
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
Harold Rosenberg
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.
Harold Rosenberg
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
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.
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
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
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
Harold Rosenberg
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
Harold Rosenberg
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
Harold Rosenberg
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
Harold Rosenberg
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
Harold Rosenberg
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
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
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
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
Harold Rosenberg
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
