If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
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.
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.
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.
Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.
Don't let your feelings be a God to you.
Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.