Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Il pleure dans mon coeurComme il pleut sur la ville.Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice.

You are the driver steering your own dreams. Choose to knock down whatever crosses your way.

Follow reason, but don’t ignore that gut feeling.

I want constructive energy generated by every brushstroke and between every line.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.