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

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

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.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.