The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art / and, by analogy, our own experience / more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.