“Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.”
“Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.”
“Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
“Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.”
“...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.”
“We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention”