“What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of ...” — Terry Teachout Quote

“What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.”

“What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.”

“Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.”

“Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.”

“With the dramatic canvas, I found you could still operate with the documentarist's observational eye.”

“This is about relationships, about the placement of potent colors and the canvas sparkling through. I want the eye to dance across the canvas but direct you, too.”