Quotes of Harold Rosenberg - somelinesforyou

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

- Harold Rosenberg

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

- Harold Rosenberg

“ 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

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

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause — it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause — it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

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

- Harold Rosenberg

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

- Harold Rosenberg

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

- 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

“ Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ 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… ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ”

- 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

“ Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause — it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ 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… ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause — it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

“ Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause — it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- Harold Rosenberg

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

- Harold Rosenberg

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

- Harold Rosenberg

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. ”

- Harold Rosenberg
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