I Need Say Nothing, Only Exhibit

"The word novel, when it entered the languages of Europe, had the vaguest of meanings; it meant the form of writing that was formless, that had no rules, that made up its own rules as it went along."

"Plot itself ceased to constitute the armature of narrative. The demands of the anecdote were doubtless less constraining for Prouse that for Flaubert, for Faulkner than for Proust, for Beckett than for Faulkner. To tell a story became strictly impossible."

"Collage, the art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, was the most important innovation in the art of the twentieth century."

"'Rothko is great because he forced artists who came after him to change how they though about painting.' This is the single most useful definition of artistic greatness I've ever encountered."

"The life span of a fact is shrinking."

"I'm interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same."

"Art is not truth; art is a lie that enables us to recognize truth."

I don't feel any of the guilt normally attached to "plagiarism," which seems to me organically connected to creativity itself.