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

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

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.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

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