Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

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.

She's growing up, " Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.