I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.