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.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

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.

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.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

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

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