I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

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

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

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

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