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

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

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

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

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.