The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.