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.

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.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

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.

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

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

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