At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Harold RosenbergAvant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
Harold RosenbergWhoever 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 RosenbergKitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
Harold Rosenberg