The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

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

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.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.