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

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

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

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

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

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

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?