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

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

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

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

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

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

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