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.

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.

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

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

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.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

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.