Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

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

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

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

We never need feel we are alone or unloved in the Lord's service because we never are. The Savior has promised angels on our left and on our right to bear us up, and he always keeps his word.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

I move, therefore I am.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Don't say random stuff. It makes me do random things