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

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

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

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

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.