Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it...

The individual’ is an idea like other ideas.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani, is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

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

Intellectuals are a herd of independent minds.

I can't understand it. They just wanted to retire.

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.