Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.