Rosenberg

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    The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
    —Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)

    The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous.... 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.
    —Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)

    One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless.... They have put into practise the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
    —Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)