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.

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

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

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.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

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