Art is a self-replicating force..

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy f….

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like..

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you hear yourself tryin….

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all..

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of s….

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged a….

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well..

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and re….

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recogniz….

Energy and art go where they will..

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the ….

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, g….

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly..

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stiegli….

Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credential….

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculp….

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art... skill h….

Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy wha….

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing yo….

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy..