floaty squares and fuzzy rectangles

“Icons. People worship. I’m not religious, but I could make the argument that people who worship the Bible are worshipping great art. People stand around Rothko’s chapel—for God’s sake, those are just Buddhist televisions. There’s nothing there! He’s just an old Jewish guy—bald—who made floaty squares and fuzzy rectangles. And yet you go there and you cry.”

Jerry Saltz