Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenbergwas an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. Beginning in the early 1960s he became art Critic for the New Yorker magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 February 1906
CountryUnited States of America
Harold Rosenberg quotes about
creativity self creating
Whoever 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.
europe world modern
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
addiction revolution permanence
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
way making-money proof
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
creating self engaged
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
change stars past
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
determination degrees critics
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
practice conservative individual
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
struggle self numbers
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).
artist self secret
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.
struggle vocabulary profound
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
problem neighborhood solutions
Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.
mean artist opposites
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.
united-states social structure
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.