I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.