The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

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.

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

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.