Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.
Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.
I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.
Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.
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.