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

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

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

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

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

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.