"Before 1940 there was relatively little abstract art in America. Most of it was relatively geometric versions of Cubi…"

"Great art is never extreme. Criticism moves in a false direction, as does art, when it aspires to be a social science…"

"The passions are a kind of thirst, inexorable and intense, for certain feelings or felt states. To find or invent 'ob…"

"One is to know that art is not national, that to be merely an American or a French artist is to be nothing; to fail t…"

"One cuts and chooses and shifts and pastes, and sometimes tears off and begins again."

"The aesthetic is the sine qua none for art: if a work is not aesthetic, it is not art by definition.. .We feel throug…"

"[modern art is the story of certain peoples'] desire to get rid of what is dead in human experience, to get rid of co…"

"The activity of the artist makes him less socially conditioned and more humans. It is then that he is disposed to rev…"

"It is Cezanne's feeling that determined the form of his pictorial structure. It is his pictorial structure that gives…"

"Plastic automatism.. ..as employed by modern masters, like Masson, Miro, [both artists of Surrealism] and Picasso, is…"