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

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

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.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

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

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

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