Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

The only truth is music.

She was ugly, was all they'd told her. But she didn't find them beautiful, so what did it matter?

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

Congratulations to President Obama on being reelected president of the United States. Turns out it is not all bad news for the Republicans. It seems that depression is covered by Obamacare.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had.

You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.