Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.