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.

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

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

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

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

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.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.