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

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

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

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

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.