Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity

An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

To be wise means to know when to stay silent.

Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.

I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.