Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.
I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.
Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.