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. (Harold Rosenberg)

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.

Harold Rosenberg

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