Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few preparedto learn to draw?

Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying...

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose shallow secret may be guessed and revealed by one whose feet are wounded and who knows not...

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that’s the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about...

Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I’m struck by how much they see and how much they know–and how much I don’t.Good art writing should therefore do at least two things....