Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

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.

As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.