But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow..

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as bei….

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal..

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extin….

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize..

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselve….

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters ….

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop..

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt..

Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to….

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds..

If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determin….

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control….

No art goes unmediated by other art..

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope..

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive..

At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become like a big brother to me. We've le….

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the proce….

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of ins….

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none ….