Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.
You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
