Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!