There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.

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.

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

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

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