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

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

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

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 do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

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

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.