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

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance..

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy..

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it..

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I wa….

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful..

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa..

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion..

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object..

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assuran….

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of pe….

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pict….

You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment,….

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera..

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast..

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mut….

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!.

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contra….

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens..

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane..

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is….