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

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?

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

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

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

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