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

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

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.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

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

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.