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.

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.

You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

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.

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

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