The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

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.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS.

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility