Andrea FraserNew
It’s become clearer to me that a fundamental part of my methodology and values as an artist is that honesty is the best policy.
Matt Levine
If you want to criticize a system, you should understand how it actually works.
Peter Morton
When we opened the Hard Rock, we looked at it as our psychiatrist’s couch.
Vaginal Davis
Why be a tepid, conformist company gal when you can radiate?
Susannah Glickman
Moore’s Law becomes so powerful, in fact, that people think it’s self-perpetuating. In a way, it is: it’s something that’s almost always in crisis.
Zadie Smith
I am a writer first, foremost, last and forever.
Emily Wei Rales
For a culture to function democratically, minority voices have to speak, and they have to be heard without being flattened or tokenized.
Diane Solway
I’m always looking at things and then asking: where’s culture headed and who are the prime movers?
Paolo Roversi
I connect more with people who have mystery, who keep something private, who don't show everything.
Elena Filipovic
It was mind-blowing that someone had a word for what I actually wanted to become.
Nancy Silverton
Nothing stopped me from trying because I didn’t know what I was doing.
Amy Yao
I like things that are still in the making, still becoming. That’s why I’m an artist and not a historian.
Willo Perron
At my core, what motivates me is curiosity.
Thom Bettridge
I learned more writing newsletters, prepping Facebook posts, and making magazines under deadline than from reading Heidegger.
Ben Smith
I came up in an era when social media made it feel like the content could be so viral that it marketed itself.
Kelly Reichardt
I’m a politically minded person, but I try to make character films.
Daniel Saldaña París
I think of the diary as a form of queer writing, not from a place of identity, but from a place of intimacy.
Pedagogy
Arts pedagogy–both the teaching of art and the ways art educates us–makes apparent the unbreakable bond between art and the world.
2020–OngoingTimeline
These shifts define the conditions of pedagogy.
D. Graham Burnett
We need more art-thinking on campuses, and less fetishizing of positive knowledge.
Barry Bergdoll
I like a more global view, and I like a larger field of action that’s not possible for most single practitioners.
Aliza Shvarts
If anything can destabilize our understanding of the individual author, or the individual artist, or the individual itself, it’s pedagogy.
Tina Campt
My approach to language is that theory doesn’t need to be a weapon.
Claire Bishop
The people attacking university education clearly haven’t spent time in a seminar.
Howard Singerman
The art world runs on fads and amnesia.
Fred Moten
I’d rather be in the hold with my folks than be free by myself.
Our Literal Speed
Real education is a furtive, strange activity that involves huge amounts of boredom punctuated by moments of huge enlightenment.
Rosalyn Deutsche
I still consider feminism and war resistance to be inseparable.
Juliana Huxtable
The art school industrial complex damages the immediacy, the efficacy, and the reach of art as something that is alive and culturally relevant.
Joshua Rothman
I feel my intellectual life working when an idea that I’ve worked hard to understand suddenly becomes visible in the ordinary.
Johanna Fateman
Anything that keeps us human, that keeps us connected, is meeting the moment.
Susan Spungen
There’s a resonance with certain recipes at different points—the very first thing I did with Martha Stewart Living was cookies.
Alex G
Making music is the only time I think.
Anna Kornbluh
Movements work when they have visions, representations, and mediations that sustain them over time.
Agnes Gund
I collect what appears and feels like it belongs.
Lucinda Childs
I like to be precise.
Mary Cappello
I still place great stock in the unconscious and the sense that we never know ourselves fully.
Ben Davis
Without a critical mass of art criticism and debate, you may have something that looks like art but it won’t feel like art.
Phyllis Lambert
Modernist architecture wasn’t about grappling with the past. It was about working with an entirely different set of criteria.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
I’m focused on creating dialogues to address the challenges of our time.
Barbara Kruger
Without doubt, you start believing your own importance. That’s the real danger.
Paula Cooper
Judgment implies experience and comparison, whereas taste is innate.
Karole Armitage
I like the deep, deep, deep understanding of the technology of the body that only ballet has.
Charles Gaines
My whole struggle was being suspicious of the idea that subjectivity and the creative imagination are what makes art, art.
Arthur Jafa
A lot of people are winning at winning, but they’re not necessarily winning at art.
Rachel Kushner
Writing has to feel like the appointment you were meant to keep.
Sheila Heti
The important thing alphabetizing did for me was it got rid of chronological time.
Keith McNally
I never know if a restaurant is going to work until it’s open for business.
Yvonne Rainer
Aging provides a whole new, though limited, range of motion.
Irene V. Small
Sometimes, the machinations of power are so obvious or overdetermined that our time is better spent looking askew.
Ariana Reines
There’s always some kind of freedom even in the most horrible circumstances.
Robert Wilson
I think in terms of mega structures. I work out the form and then begin to fill it in.
Margo Jefferson
I always knew that the only kind of journalist I was going to be was a critic.
2Adrienne Edwards
For me, this is the power of Ailey: that a dance exhibition would also have to be an exhibition about cultural history.
Glenn Ligon
I use painting, but I’m not a painter.
Collier Schorr
I’ve always seen photography as the route to being in trouble.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Her legacy isn’t lost, but continuously with us in various shapes and forms.
William Kentridge
At a certain point I couldn’t bear the work ‘on behalf of’—the condition of thinking for some other person.
Claire Saffitz
I don’t think that it’s impossible to live a full life without cooking, but if you want to eat well, you have to cook.
Kyle Chayka
We realized that living your life on the internet kind of sucks.
Jonathan Crary
The humanities are in the process of either elimination or repackaging into revenue-generating digital enterprises.
Jefferson Hack
I think the future’s invented more by mistakes than it is by design.
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down
We had three seasons to figure out how to make Industry on an HBO budget.
Garrett Bradley
I’m most interested in making form work harder and in service of subject matter.
Mary Gaitskill
I didn’t know how to be socially, but I understood sex.
Narrative
There is no more mysterious force than the act of storytelling.
Doreen St. Félix
I had always had in my head that criticism becomes criticism once it’s published.
Vivian Gornick
I am one of those feminists who concentrates on what we did accomplish rather than what we didn’t.
Brandon Taylor
People betray themselves and others all the time.
Olivia Laing
Critique is a tool for understanding, but it’s not the end of the process.
Marc Newson
In the world of design, it’s not only beneficial to be a generalist, but necessary.
Diamanda Galás
Performance often involves finding new information in the process of creating.
Marcel Kurpershoek
Borders are just a nuisance and an obstacle, but now we have to live with them.
Oneohtrix Point Never
I didn’t know what the rules were, but then I learned that there weren’t any.
Yxta Maya Murray
Museums and galleries kind of train people in passivity.
Caroline Polachek
You need to have a solid structure to doodle around.
AIDS
What does it mean to understand oneself within a specific juncture of AIDS history?
AIDS Inc.
Nothing makes a community like a fucking disaster.
Douglas Crimp
Douglas’ insistence on emerging politically out of the confinement of being labeled a problem remains life-giving.
Alper Turan
Withholding is not about opacity or refusal, it is about participating on one's own terms.
Fierce Pussy
We have a sense of solidarity, not only across any social, political, or cultural differences, but across time.
Robert Glück
Most of my books are, at heart, me banging my head against a brick wall.
Brontez Purnell
For the men who died before us, we are definitely the generation that they were praying for.
Jeff Koons
The way you walk out of Plato’s cave is through the removal of judgment and the practice of acceptance.
2Hua Hsu
I think that there’s actually a dumb optimism in a lot of what I do.
B.J. Novak
I’ve never been interested in being consumed by the joke.
Cynthia Carr
I couldn’t help but notice that other critics weren’t at the Pyramid Club or 8BC at 2 in the morning.
Lynne Tillman
I’ve never felt quite like a woman because I disobeyed.
Marcel Dzama
Punk is that freedom to do it yourself, even if it’s sloppy and messy.
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
Sound allows us to both contract and expand the frame.
Michael Govan
Everyone told me not to move to Los Angeles because there was no money for art.
Semiotext(e)
It remains difficult to imagine an American avant-garde outside the publisher’s influential network.
Bernadette Corporation
A corporation is a way to disappear, to have impunity. It’s a legitimate kind of thuggery.
Harmony Holiday
Play is a form of thinking.
Jim Fleming
I've been erased from the official history of Semiotext(e).
Chris Kraus
I’ve never been able to fully commit to the art world.
David Marchese
I would get bored only talking to celebrities for the rest of my life.
Celeste Yim
Comedy is just as much timing and sound as it is space and distance.
Susan Buck-Morss
I’m not at all a left-wing melancholic.
Martin Beck
What would ecological ethics be within artistic production?
Lorrie Moore
Novelists are always living in an alternative universe. One walks back and forth through a gossamer curtain.
Rizvana Bradley
I want to refuse modes of interpretation that are ultimately aimed at putting the art object to work.
Nora Turato
I’ve realized that my work is about claiming monumentality through something more temporal.
Lionel Boyce
Season one of The Bear was a punk song. It was like a punch in the mouth. Season two is an album.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Math calms me in a way nothing else does—by not calculating, I realized I’d starved my brain of oxygen.
Bret Easton Ellis
I do not know why Less Than Zero has stuck around. It actually has outstayed its welcome.
Suneil Sanzgiri
That’s the driving force in my work: what if this world didn’t have to be the world?
Conversations at Karma II
Preparation gave way to intuition, and discipline gave way to process.
Michael Imperioli
All I had at that time was a headshot and a resume full of lies.
Rachel Tashjian
Style, to me, means there’s something happening on the exterior that suggests an interesting interior.
Ishmael Houston-Jones
I’m perhaps most of all interested in a sense of disorientation, and of not knowing.
Devonté Hynes
I don’t think I’ve ever had ambition, but I’ve had drive.
Sara Marcus
I don’t come to this book as a parent; I come to this book as a descendant.
Gus Van Sant
I like stories about people who are secretly intelligent.
Sasha Frere-Jones
When you’re working in a journalistic framework, you’re going to be making the donuts and you may like the donuts but you did not design the donuts.
Christopher D’Arcangelo
The body generates administration. And then there's the administration of the body.
Jackie Wang
I do wonder whether it is such a good idea to make trauma the center of political demands.
Ben Lerner
Like a worm or octopus, a novel can have more than one heart.
Samuel R. Delany
Goethe remarked, back in the 18th century, that a man of 50 knows no more than a man of 20; they just know different things.
Process
We are believers in practice.
Sigrid Nunez
You have to learn not to worry about what people are going to think of you personally.
Savanah Leaf
We can’t walk in anyone else’s shoes. Maybe the goal—not just of art, but also of being here—is to walk beside one another.
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Lineages that focus only on proper-named artists are not only Eurocentric and masculinist but plain boring.
Lisa Yuskavage
An individual painting, it ends on kind of a period. Whereas a body of work ends with a question.
Alison Roman
It was a lot easier to be yourself before the Internet, before you were constantly being shown what the other possibilities were.
Writing
What fantasy of salvation is left over for the writer?
Stephanie LaCava
The most generative thing you can do as a writer is to go out and see other people’s work.
Lee Edelman
For me, the life of theory has been shaped by the experience of untimely loss.
Bob Colacello
That was the cleverness of Andy's business structure: you could be the editor of Interview if you could figure out how to pay for it.
Matthew Williams
Something lived-in and repaired in a beautiful way is itself beautiful.
Ottessa Moshfegh
Why should I be reading something that isn’t going to change or influence me to have a new feeling?
2Hal Foster
Critical theory, not art or architecture, was the avant-garde of that time.
Theodore (ted) Kerr
Activism can be, and often has been, about bringing dignity to life and death.
Ann Hamilton
I think the hardest thing as an artist is to find form for your questions.
After the Revolution
The new tools ended up in the same old hands.
Institutional Critique
Where’s the anti-aesthetic? The critique of practice is gone.
Flue-ed Times
These terms—'What do we own?'; 'What is the same?'—were among the modes of address floating around at the time and seemed to fit.
Postmodernism
There is now a postmodernism cobbled together from these antecedents that hangs over contemporary culture.
Senga Nengudi
I’m not interested in just looking but in having an experience and then expanding from there.
Denise Ferreira da Silva
The ability to self-represent is crucial; it is the first condition of possibility for any kind of representation.
Malcolm Harris
The futurist California never happened—it was never tried.
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
I've never been someone who could be influenced very easily.
Emma Cline
I'm always cognizant of life being the most interesting thing, and writing coming out of that.
Hedi El Kholti
I've only lived my gay sex life in English.
Yve-Alain Bois
Painting can only live if it wants to die.
Hua Hsu
What does it mean to problematize your own memory or your own sense of self?
Adrienne Edwards
My body, your body, was already implicated in the zero degree of painting from day one.
Thelma Golden
I had the most boring job of all of my friends who were working in the early days of Hip-hop.
Stuart Comer
I have always wanted to fight cultural amnesia, and I don't know how we do that without museums.
Keller Easterling
I’m writing to anyone with a political imagination.
Laurie Simmons
There is this moment when you have to reject everything in order to push yourself forward.
2Lucy Sante
I like a kind of writing that's irreducible—just itself and nothing else.
Conversations at Karma
How do we labor to bring ourselves into the present?
Hilton Als
I think we need to de-frame art and let it be free.
Hélène Cixous
I spent my youth in a world of women who were, and who insisted to be, witnesses to the fate of women.
Jussi Parikka
What matters is not only the writing of time as history but the writing processes of technologies.
Lucy Sante
All my life I’d been having arguments with myself that I couldn’t properly solve within the jurisdiction of myself.
Christoph Cox
I'm interested in all the forces that liberate and constrict sound.
McKenzie Wark
Trans women have never had an ongoing, well-documented, accessible, aesthetically varied, interracial culture.
Dan Graham
My work is about staging and confronting our reality with fiction.
Tom Burr
I like to be both inside and outside.
Susan Schuppli
The ecological is a sensibility.
Where the Skin Ends
It’s too easy to be curious, but not optimistic; or optimistic, but not curious.
The Environmental Self
Torture and therapy here are not antipodal.
Our Most Haunted Place
Simulation faced the same unceremonious end as its referent.
Architecture
We are forever circling the drain.
K Allado-McDowell
There's something freeing about not owning every word.
Abortions Will Not Let You Forget
At this edge of legibility, we can find new language, frameworks, and tools.
Lena Dunham
People sometimes thought I cared more about myself than I did.
Bell Hooks
Not having moments to grieve is a combination of raced, classed, and gendered positionality.
Dennis Cooper
I was already the enemy to a lot of the activists, because I wasn’t representing gays in a positive way.
Three Poems on Art
They stood around, laughing, while drugs crumbled in their blood.
Hito Steyerl
If I ever reached a milestone I would run away in horror.
Sianne Ngai
We could say that the entire enterprise of art has a gimmick problem.
Godzilla
‘Asian American’ identity may be a construction but the social and psychic life of racialized people in America is very real.
Dodie Bellamy
My attention tends to focus on the micro, on what’s right in front of my face—I let associations spiral out from there.
Knobkerry
The store was about conversations between worlds and how those conversations meshed together and only Sara could do that.
Gregg Bordowitz
I decided to schmear my queer Jewish pinko self in schmaltz and go out and grease up the stage.
Elizabeth Diller
I can’t think of architecture as anything other than a performative art form.
Black BatailleClassic
Blackness presents the possibility of a thoroughly anti-Idealist aesthetic and theory of objects.
Catharsis in Ten Fragments
I've never understood catharsis.
Michael Taussig
Sacrifice is a pointed instance of dépense, an exquisitely sacred combustion, and one that runs throughout Bataille’s economics.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
L’informe comes out of WWII, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.
Matthew Barney
At the core, I think of my creative language as being rather formless.
L’informePopular
It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.
L’informe
It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.
Andrea Long Chu
I experienced my transness as a shape the Internet made when it looked at me.
Amie Barrodale
The idea of three-act structure is in my head a lot, destroying my stories before they really begin.
John Akomfrah
We don't need to go beyond blackness. It's not a before and after question.
Hal Foster
Even though I don't see criticism as art, I don't see it as secondary to art. I see it as a practice parallel to it.
Howardena Pindell
There will be gradual changes in the art world, but the arts are often the last to change.
Mark Wigley
Architecture is not about the wellbeing of humans at all. It doesn't simply house the human, it remakes the human.
Mimi Thi Nguyen
One mantra in particular strikes me in this moment—and it is from John Waters's Female Trouble—‘crime is beauty.’
Ruba Katrib
The modern manifestation of the museum has its origins as a colonial and disciplining institution.
Nell Painter
Things improving for old women artists is like things improving for Black Americans. Things improve. But things stay shitty.
Sarah Schulman
Historically, queer women have been on the front lines of every progressive movement, but not always openly.
Christopher K. Ho
The paradigmatic Hongkonger, especially from the generations between 1949 and 1997, is transnational and neoliberal.
Frank B. Wilderson III
The essential antagonism is not between the workers and bosses but between the Humans and the Blacks.
Adrian Piper
When living honorably is more important than staying alive, you’re ready to fight effectively for what you believe in.
Introduction
Conversations with and among ourselves and each other are the only way we solve problems and constitute change in real and tangible ways.