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

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.

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

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

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.