Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

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.

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.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

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.