Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

Any critic will tell you that there are a few dealers where you get a little bit scared to go into their gallery, and that's unfair to them, to yourself, to the reader, and to the artist. But I just want to look. When I'm done looking and writing, I love talking to art dealers. They are so alive and interesting and amazing - from Larry Gagosian all the way on down.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.