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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.