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.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

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

The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience

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.

Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one of the most challenging.. if only because so few people have done it well enough to be remembered.. but I'm not sure the challenge is worth it.