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

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.

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

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

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

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