In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

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.

What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?

There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events.

What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure.

If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

The things we are attached to are no more than shadows of the past.

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.