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

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.

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

Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.

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.

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