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

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

You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

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

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

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.