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

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.