The New Job Of Art Is To

Works Of Art... Do Not Force Meanings On Their Audience; Meaning Emerges, Adds Up, Unfolds From Their Imagined Centres... Takes One Through The Process Of Discovering Meaning.

If You Want To Be Successful In The Gym, In The Classroom, In College Or When You Get Out And Go Into The World Of Work, That Is Going To Be Determined By How Hard You Are Willing To Work.

America Is A Construction Of Mind, Not Of Race Or Inherited Class Or Ancestral Territory.

Far From Affording Artists Continuous Inspiration, Mass-media Sources For Art Have Become A Dead End. They Have Combined With The Abstractness Of Institutional Art Teaching To Produce A Fine-arts Culture Given Over To Information And Not Experience. This Faithfully Echoes The Drain Of Concreteness From Modern Existence- The Reign Of Mere Unassimilated Data Instead Of Events That Gain Meaning By Being Absorbed Into The Fabric Of Imaginative Life.

In Art There Is No Progress, Only Fluctuations Of Intensity.