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.

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 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.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

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.

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