When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

relationships would be without fault if we would just do what we would want our spouse to do in every situation.

Our journeys are different but we can share the same well traveled path during parts of our excursion. Small victories win wars not single battles.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

They [Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May] both went to state schools, they are both women, hey, that's pretty quirky for the Tory party. Isn't this the new sort of Tory party ?