Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

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

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.