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… - Harold Rosenberg

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

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.