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

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

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

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

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

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.

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