I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

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

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

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

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

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.