What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Outside museums in noisy public squares people look at people. Inside museums we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind getting quiet to look at art.

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist in love with art smitten with art history. You're also a woman with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity gizmos eating hanging out things that make noise - all are now the norm often edging out much else.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art and can become art but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business the business of building entertainment.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.