Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.

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.

The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.