You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

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

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.