“Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.”
“Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.”
“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”
“Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.”
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”