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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.