American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Harold RosenbergOne of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Harold RosenbergThe values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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