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.

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.

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.

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 civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change.

Even now, that day reminds me that raindrops are stronger than hammers.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.