Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant