An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

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

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.

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.

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