59 Quotes by Harold Rosenberg

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

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

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.

It breaks your heart. They were hardworking and enthusiastic about life.

This breaks my heart. They were hardworking people and very honest.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.