I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.

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 holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.