History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.

Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.