Harold Rosenberg Quotes

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.

Harold Rosenberg

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• If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Same

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• Kleenex would have made a mint today.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Today
  • Made
  • Mint

• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Health
  • Goal

• I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Marriage

• I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hero

• From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Happy
  • Retired
  • Racing Driver

• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Canvas
  • Add

• You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Question
  • Yourself

• Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Week
  • Benefit
  • U.S.

• I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Concentration

• I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Only
  • Canada
  • Miami

• I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Fanatic

• The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Islam
  • Obstacle
  • Brussels

• You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Up
  • Long
  • America

• I worked in IT, which is all boys, and I was the queen of the boys. That's what I did. I was the one who knew where the paper towels were, which was very important. And I organized happy hours and things like that.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Important
  • Happy

• Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

  

  Josh Bowman
  • Want
  • Lives
  • Escapism

• You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Up

• I never thought that having a kid would be the thing that got you to work.

  

  Uffie
  • Work
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Harold Rosenberg