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

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

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.

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.

It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great, " Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's not even a word, " Lana said."Go ahead: try to vince me, " Sanjit said.

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

Watch out: the sheep in wolves clothes!

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

Try not to look sideways to see how others are viewing our lives but to look up to see how heavenly father sees us.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.