Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

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

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

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.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

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

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