Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist’s work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation. Art is the laboratory for making new men.
ATTRIBUTION:
Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978), U.S. art critic, author. Discovering the Present, pt. 4, ch. 24 (1973).
