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

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.

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.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

No one really wants you, they only want the idea of you.

With grace and gratitude, great lives evolve.

Obviously it’s hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.