It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go here. So all you have to do is look at it, give it a few seconds, and your eye will start to move through the painting.

Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world.

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture, whereas the Italian work, from a different era, is so comfortable with its relationship to nature and to culture.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.