Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

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

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

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

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

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

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.