One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

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.

Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.