The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look lik…

Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a Rosetta St…

The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

In the tragedy in question, for example, he condemned the ideas but admired the style, abhorred the conception but praised all the details, found the character…

People call me an over-actor, people who say this might call Van Gogh an over- painter.