Museum Quotes

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

An art book is a museum without walls.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.