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.

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

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

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

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.

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