Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

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

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

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

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.