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 importanc….

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the art….

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other..

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revel….

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

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 ….

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

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole..

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to r….

How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its ….

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later..

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

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated..

Greatness in art is always a by-product..

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

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

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern wor….

If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth nothing….

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted th….

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures..