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

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

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.

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.