Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent t….

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition..

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist..

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

Greatness in art is always a by-product..

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….