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

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

In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

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

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

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.

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