The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.