America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.