I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.

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

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

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!