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

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

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

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

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