Harold Rosenberg Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Artist, Today, Essentials

• Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Mean, Appreciated

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.136, University of Chicago Press

• If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth nothing new in art but reenacts upheavals on the symbolic plane of language. It provides the consoling belief that overthrows are occurring as in the past, that barriers to creation are being surmounted, and that art is pursuing a radical purpose, even if it is only the purpose of doing away with itself.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Past, Purpose

  "Art on the Edge". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "What's New: Ritual Revolution", p. 260, 1975.

• The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Museums, Ongoing

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press

• How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Character, Movement

  "Art & Other Serious Matters" by Harold Rosenberg, University of Chicago Press, (p. 55), 1985.

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