All art is at once surface and symbol.
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
There is only good art and mediocre art.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.