The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.

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

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

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

You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

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

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.