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

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

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.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

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

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

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.