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

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

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.

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.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.