The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.

It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking …

How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character …

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.