All art is infested by other art.

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.