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

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

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.

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

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

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

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.