If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
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