There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

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.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

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

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

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

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.