Harold Rosenberg

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.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

I once saved someone from drowning.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.