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

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.

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

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

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.