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

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

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

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

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

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 dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.