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. However the historical pattern is drawn, it will not fit the developing sensibility of the individual.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit hi…

As with other modern artists, his readings provided not an organized outlook but a kind of metaphysical hum that surrounded his mental operations.