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

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

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

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

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

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

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