Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.