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.

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

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

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.

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

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.

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