Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

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.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

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

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.