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

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.

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.

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.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

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