Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Ar….

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary f….

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with..

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

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

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no lon….

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesth….

An artist is a person who has invented an artist..

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of ….

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….

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history..

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate….

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigran….

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life..

It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead o….

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

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who….

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

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it..

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the gen….

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places st….