"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."

"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."

"I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect."

"However British you may be, I am more British still."

"I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent."

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"