When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
