A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
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.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.