Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

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.

On this Valentine’s Day I like to whisper in your ear the silent songs of my heart.

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.