You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

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

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

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

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

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.