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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.