In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest…

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of h…

Each form of the sacrosanct was regarded by members of the culture which gave rise to it as a revelation of the Truth; at Byzantium it was not a mere hypothesi…

The Modernist's command was Pound's 'Make it New.' The postmodern imperative is 'Get it Used.' The more used the better.

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artis…

In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cezanne that I owe the most.