Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

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.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

As time goes on, the more I value doctors and plumbers. Doctors a little more. I can fix my own toilet but I still can't operate on myself.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Some gems for the greatest of them all

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.