Harold Rosenberg Artist Quotations

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

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

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

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.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

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.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.