An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for.

I want we to be friends, not to follow you.I want you to stop the lies, it's not awesome.

Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.