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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art