A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

- Harold Rosenberg

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

- Harold Rosenberg

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 …

- 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

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

- 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 revel…

- 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, aesth…

- Harold Rosenberg

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

- 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 lon…

- Harold Rosenberg