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.

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 values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

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

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

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

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.