The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.