Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.