Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

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.

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

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

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.

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