The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation.Harold Rosenberg
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
Harold Rosenberg
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Harold Rosenberg
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 Rosenberg
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
One 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. . .
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