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.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

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

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.

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

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.