Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

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.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

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

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

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.