The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

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.

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.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

I just like to look beautiful sometimes.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.