Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

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

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.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

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

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

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.