I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are eclectic."

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

"In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.""

"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."

"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."