Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do..

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other..

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and ….

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing an….

Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of tha….

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist ab….

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaith….

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of co….

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing..

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind..

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capaciti….

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal..

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience..

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation..

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics..

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing..

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed..

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys..

Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time ….

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrar….

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard..