Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

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

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