I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.