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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'