When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.