There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.