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

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.

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

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

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

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