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

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.

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.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.

Say what you think / Love who you love.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.