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

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

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

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

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.

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.