The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

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.

Do you have any advice for your readers?Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.

When you help someone to become a success, you unknowingly become a success.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.