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Art is the laboratory for making new men.
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The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
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Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.
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Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
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Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
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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.
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Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
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The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
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The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.
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Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani, is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Harold Rosenberg
Born:
February 2, 1906
Died:
July 11, 1978
(aged 72)
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