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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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