Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.