Harold Rosenberg

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

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.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.