"with their parallel lives animals offer man a companionship which is different from any offered by human exchange
what are the secrets of the animals likeness and un likeness of man?"

"Every Artist’s work changes when he dies. And finally no one remembers what his work was like when he was alive. Sometimes one can read what his contemporaries had to say about it. The difference of emphasis and interpretation is largely a question of historical development. But the death of the artist is also a dividing line."

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Are artists difficult to work with?

I’m in love with artists. But I understand with everything that you love, you pay a price. You are dealing with somebody who is so confident in their own thoughts, they will show it to you and want to show it to the world, so they have to have a certain amount of confidence. But they are also just as extraordinarily insecure and self-deprecating, and that megalomania is coupled with an insane kind of self-loathing. They’re not stable people. You have to be crazy to believe your ideas are good enough to interrupt what everyone else is saying and doing. Maybe that’s just the artists I’m interested in—people who have ideas that break the mold. I’m not interested in artists who reinforce the status quo. I am interested in those who explore boundaries, and for that you need to be out of the stables. I believe we are entering a new Middle Ages where visual literacy is the main literacy because it’s faster, it’s more immediate, and it’s visceral; at the same time, there is a lack of vocabulary and lack of understanding of the power of images.

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