Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

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 visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.