I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

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

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.