Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.