You have to be willing to recognize failure.

- Deborah Solomon

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.

- Deborah Solomon

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

- Deborah Solomon

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative peo…

- Deborah Solomon

Art never lies, I believe.

- Deborah Solomon

When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yo…

- Deborah Solomon

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

- Deborah Solomon

If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious p…

- Deborah Solomon