You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one of the most challenging.. if only because so few people have done it well enough to be remembered.. but I'm not sure the challenge is worth it.

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.