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

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

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

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.

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