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.

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.

By loving the broken parts in youI learn to love the broken parts in me.I learn that we are not broken after all.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

I ain't afraid to love a man.

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

Everybody could have their own body scanned and just order clothes that fit perfectly.

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

The author's tribute is heartfelt.

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.