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

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

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

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

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

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

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