Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

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.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.