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.

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

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

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

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.

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.

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.