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

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

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

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

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

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.