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

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

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

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

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

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.