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

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

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

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

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

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

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