ALLEN GINSBERG · Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber

There is, in a sense, no such thing as boredom. Boredom is only another name for a certain species of frustration.

The new sensibility is defiantly pluralistic; it is dedicated both to an excruciating seriousness and to fun and wit and nostalgia. It is also extremely history-conscious; and the voracity of its enthusiasms (and of the supercession of these enthusiasms) is very high-speed and hectic.

If you don’t understand you cannot master

Sensations, feelings, the abstract forms and styles of sensibility count. It is to these that contemporary art addresses itself.

consciousness and sensibility,

Often, the artist’s work is only his idea, his concept.

Today’s art, with its insistence on coolness, its refusal of what it considers to be sentimentality, its spirit of exactness, its sense of ‘research’ and ‘problems’, is closer to the spirit of science than of art in the old-fashioned sense.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.