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.

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

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

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

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

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

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.