Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

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.

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

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.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.