A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

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

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

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

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.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.