Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

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.

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.

Planning provides certainty.

One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Pursue the obstacle It will set you free

Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."

You can't have all you want remaining who you currently are.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

I started something with Test, but I don't know what it was.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.