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

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

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

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

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.

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.

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