Bram Stoker, Chapter 3, Dracula
“I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there.”
Gore Vidal
“Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy.”
Gore Vidal:The United States of Amnesia
Francis Bacon
“If you can talk about it, why paint it?”
New York Times (Kimmelman 1989:42)