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.

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

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.

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.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

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