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

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

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

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.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

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.

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.