A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

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.

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

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

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

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.