Harold Rosenberg Quotes

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

I design therefore I become.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.