Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
Harold RosenbergToday, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
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 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 Rosenberg