At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

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

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

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

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.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art