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

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

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything..

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

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty..

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why wo….

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

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….

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….

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