The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

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

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

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

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.