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.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siecle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education--or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments--is antieducational obscura…

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

'Look at this. Did you ever see a magazine called the New Musical Express? It turns out there is a pop group called The Police - I don't know why they are call…