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Harold Rosenberg Quotes: The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
         

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.


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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.



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



An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.



Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.



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.

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.



Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.



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

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



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

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



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

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



Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.





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