I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.