Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.