Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!