The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

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.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

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

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

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