Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.
Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
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.