All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Men will not always die quietly.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

One thing we know for sure is that we know very little about what will happen next.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.