I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it’s a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia. Hilton Als Read Quote
I’m attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it. Hilton Als Read Quote
I’m one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it’s because I don’t feel very happy about not learning. Hilton Als Read Quote
I don’t know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don’t have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old. Hilton Als Read Quote
I think that you don’t really want to write a book that doesn’t really move people and doesn’t get them to think. Hilton Als Read Quote
It’s very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don’t make portraiture ideological in some way. Hilton Als Read Quote
In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows. Hilton Als Read Quote
I think I’m just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. Hilton Als Read Quote
I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too. Hilton Als Read Quote
