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

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.

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.

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

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

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