Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.