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.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

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?

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

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

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.