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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.