There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

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

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

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

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.