Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

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

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

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

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

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

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