Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

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.

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.

Repentance leads to refreshing times.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

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One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.