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 RosenbergThe values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
Harold RosenbergThe purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold RosenbergThe 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 RosenbergKitsch 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